ArticleFrontiers in oncology2023
Identification of calcium metabolism related score associated with the poor outcome in papillary thyroid carcinoma.
Article 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 1 paper.
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.
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.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.
- Gut microbeFrontiers in immunology · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Introduction: Papillary thyroid carcinoma is a type of thyroid cancer that exhibits significant variability in prognosis. Extensive research indicates that the impaired signaling of 1,25(OH)2D3-VDR may be a crucial factor in the development and progression of PTC. Methods: To investigate this further, Integrated analysis mRNA expression information from The Cancer Genome Atlas and GEO, we compared gene expression in cancer and normal tissues and identified differentially expressed genes (DEGs). Through this analysis, we identified DEGs and calculated risk estimates for seven genetic markers. Results: Subsequently, we constructed predictive models using LASSO-Cox regression to test the predictive value of these markers. Our results revealed that 64 calcium metabolism-related genes showed significant differences between tumor and normal tissues. Ten of the identified DEGs were significantly associated with overall survival, indicating their potential role in disease progression. Using the average risk score for the seven genetic markers, we divided patients into high- and low-risk groups. We found that patients in the low-risk group had significantly better overall survival than those in the high-risk group, highlighting the importance of these genetic markers in predicting prognosis. Further analysis using Cox regression demonstrated that the risk levels had independent predictive power. Additionally, we conducted functional analysis of the identified genetic markers, which showed significant differences in immune status between the two patient groups. We also investigated the effect of these calcium metabolism-related genes on thyroid cancer biological functions, immune microenvironment, and drug resistance. Discussion: Our findings provide evidence of a novel genetic signature associated with calcium metabolism, which can predict prognosis in patients with PTC. These results may have significant implications for the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to improve outcomes for PTC patients.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.