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The Impact of Heavy Smoking on Male Infertility and Its Correlation with the Expression Levels of the

Houda Amor, Yaser Alkhaled, Riffat Bibi, Mohamad Eid Hammadeh, Peter Michael Jankowski

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Article in Genes, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Smoking and the risk of prostate cancer: a review of risk and disease progression.Genes and environment : the official journal of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society · 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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Houda AmorDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Saarland University Clinic, 66424 Homburg, Germany.
Yaser AlkhaledDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Saarland University Clinic, 66424 Homburg, Germany.
Riffat BibiDepartment of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0001-5265-3626
Mohamad Eid HammadehDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Saarland University Clinic, 66424 Homburg, Germany.
Peter Michael JankowskiDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Saarland University Clinic, 66424 Homburg, Germany.
Saarland University · DEQuaid-i-Azam University · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Smoking has been linked to male infertility by affecting the sperm epigenome and genome. In this study, we aimed to determine possible changes in the transcript levels of

Indexed as

Infertility, MaleSemenFertilityHumansMaleMitochondrial ProteinsPhosphoprotein PhosphatasesReceptor-Like Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Class 8Semen AnalysisSmokingMitochondrial ProteinsPGAM5 protein, humanPhosphoprotein PhosphatasesPTPRN2 protein, humanReceptor-Like Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Class 8heavy smokingmale infertilityPGAM5PTPRN2transcript levelTYRO3

Identifiers

PMID37628668
PMCPMC10454138
OpenAlexW4385796093

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