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ReviewNature reviews. Neurology2023

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: the road to targeted therapies.

Mara S Tihaya, Karlien Mul, Judit Balog, Jessica C de Greef, Stephen J Tapscott, Rabi Tawil, Jeffrey M Statland, Silvère M van der Maarel

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Review in Nature reviews. Neurology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
9.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Mara S Tihaya *Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0608-6023
Karlien Mul *Department of Neurology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Judit BalogDepartment of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Jessica C de GreefDepartment of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2819-6098
Stephen J TapscottDivision of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
Rabi TawilDepartment of Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
Jeffrey M StatlandDepartment of Neurology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.
Silvère M van der MaarelDepartment of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. maarel@lumc.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8103-711X
Leiden University Medical Center · NLFred Hutch Cancer Center · USRadboud University Nijmegen · NLUniversity of Kansas Medical Center · USUniversity of Rochester Medical Center · US

Funding

Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Specialized Research Center (Seattle)P50AR065139 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI JEFFREY S CHAMBERLAIN · 2018 to 2026
$15.9M
The Pathogenesis of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular DystrophyP01NS069539 · NINDS · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI TAPSCOTT, STEPHEN J · 2010 to 2019
$12.3M
SMCHD1 Pathways as Candidate Targets for FSHDR01AR066248 · NIAMS · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI TAPSCOTT, STEPHEN J · 2014 to 2024
$4.5M
NIAMS NIH HHS P50 AR065139NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR066248NINDS NIH HHS P01 NS069539
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in the molecular understanding of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) have revealed that FSHD results from epigenetic de-repression of the DUX4 gene in skeletal muscle, which encodes a transcription factor that is active in early embryonic development but is normally silenced in almost all somatic tissues. These advances also led to the identification of targets for disease-altering therapies for FSHD, as well as an improved understanding of the molecular mechanism of the disease and factors that influence its progression. Together, these developments led the FSHD research community to shift its focus towards the development of disease-modifying treatments for FSHD. This Review presents advances in the molecular and clinical understanding of FSHD, discusses the potential targeted therapies that are currently being explored, some of which are already in clinical trials, and describes progress in the development of FSHD-specific outcome measures and assessment tools for use in future clinical trials.

Indexed as

Muscular Dystrophy, FacioscapulohumeralGene Expression RegulationHomeodomain ProteinsHumansMuscle, SkeletalHomeodomain Proteins

Identifiers

PMID36627512
PMCPMC11578282
OpenAlexW4313909768

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