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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2023

ARID1A in cancer: Friend or foe?

Beatrice Fontana, Giulia Gallerani, Irene Salamon, Ilaria Pace, Roberta Roncarati, Manuela Ferracin

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.9field-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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Morphological and molecular characterization of epithelial ovarian cancer: SEOM-SEAP consensus guidelines for biomarker integration in clinical practice.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  6. Loss of ARID1A expression is associated with worse survival and reduced tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  14. Molecular interplay of ARID1A in gastrointestinal cancers.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2025
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  19. ARID1A and Its Impact Across the Hallmarks of Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Beatrice FontanaDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Giulia GalleraniDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Irene SalamonDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Ilaria PaceDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Roberta RoncaratiIstituto di Genetica Molecolare "Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza" - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerce (CNR), Bologna, Italy.
Manuela FerracinDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
University of Bologna · ITAzienda USL di Bologna · ITIstituto di Genetica Molecolare · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

ARID1A belongs to a class of chromatin regulatory proteins that function by maintaining accessibility at most promoters and enhancers, thereby regulating gene expression. The high frequency of ARID1A alterations in human cancers has highlighted its significance in tumorigenesis. The precise role of ARID1A in cancer is highly variable since ARID1A alterations can have a tumor suppressive or oncogenic role, depending on the tumor type and context. ARID1A is mutated in about 10% of all tumor types including endometrial, bladder, gastric, liver, biliopancreatic cancer, some ovarian cancer subtypes, and the extremely aggressive cancers of unknown primary. Its loss is generally associated with disease progression more often than onset. In some cancers, ARID1A loss is associated with worse prognostic features, thus supporting a major tumor suppressive role. However, some exceptions have been reported. Thus, the association of ARID1A genetic alterations with patient prognosis is controversial. However, ARID1A loss of function is considered conducive for the use of inhibitory drugs which are based on synthetic lethality mechanisms. In this review we summarize the current knowledge on the role of ARID1A as tumor suppressor or oncogene in different tumor types and discuss the strategies for treating ARID1A mutated cancers.

Indexed as

ARID1Aoncogenesolid tumorsSWI/SNF complexsynthetic lethalitytumor suppressor gene

Identifiers

PMID36890819
PMCPMC9987588
OpenAlexW4321376018

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