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ReviewScience (New York, N.Y.)2023

Epigenetics as a mediator of plasticity in cancer.

Andrew P Feinberg, Andre Levchenko

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Review in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 139 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
139citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
34.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

139 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 223 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Andrew P FeinbergCenter for Epigenetics, Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, and Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8364-1991
Andre LevchenkoYale Systems Biology Institute and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6262-1222
Johns Hopkins University · USSystems Biology Institute · JP

Funding

Systems analysis of phenotypic switch in control of cancer invasionU54CA209992 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI LEVCHENKO, ANDRE · 2016 to 2021
$10.1M
MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY OF WILMS TUMOR RELATED GENES 11PR01CA054358 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ANDREW P. FEINBERG · 1991 to 2026
$5.5M
Epigenetic Drivers of Intrinsic Phenotypic Variability in Metabolic DiseaseDP1DK119129 · NIDDK · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI FEINBERG, ANDREW P. · 2018 to 2023
$3.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA054358NCI NIH HHS U54 CA209992NIDDK NIH HHS DP1 DK119129
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The concept of an epigenetic landscape describing potential cellular fates arising from pluripotent cells, first advanced by Conrad Waddington, has evolved in light of experiments showing nondeterministic outcomes of regulatory processes and mathematical methods for quantifying stochasticity. In this Review, we discuss modern approaches to epigenetic and gene regulation landscapes and the associated ideas of entropy and attractor states, illustrating how their definitions are both more precise and relevant to understanding cancer etiology and the plasticity of cancerous states. We address the interplay between different types of regulatory landscapes and how their changes underlie cancer progression. We also consider the roles of cellular aging and intrinsic and extrinsic stimuli in modulating cellular states and how landscape alterations can be quantitatively mapped onto phenotypic outcomes and thereby used in therapy development.

Indexed as

Cell PlasticityEpigenesis, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticNeoplasmsCarcinogenesisCellular SenescenceHumans

Identifiers

PMID36758093
PMCPMC10249049
OpenAlexW4319827264

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