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ReviewCell & bioscience2024

The ABCs of Stargardt disease: the latest advances in precision medicine.

Yasmine A Zaydon, Stephen H Tsang

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Review in Cell & bioscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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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

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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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.

Yasmine A ZaydonDepartments of Ophthalmology, Pathology and Cell Biology, Jonas Children's Vision Care, and Bernard and Shirlee Brown Glaucoma Laboratory, Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, Institute of Human Nutrition, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. yaz2103@columbia.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-2399-9919
Stephen H TsangDepartments of Ophthalmology, Pathology and Cell Biology, Jonas Children's Vision Care, and Bernard and Shirlee Brown Glaucoma Laboratory, Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, Institute of Human Nutrition, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stargardt disease (STGD) is the most common form of inherited juvenile macular dystrophy and is caused by sequence variants in the ABCA4 gene. Due to its genetic complexity and phenotypic variability, STGD poses significant therapeutic challenges. In the past decade, a lot of progress has been made regarding our understanding of the molecular and clinical aspects of STGD, along with its mechanisms. This has led to the development of new therapies, and there are human clinical trials currently ongoing. This paper evaluates the emergence of pharmacological approaches targeting the visual cycle to mitigate retinal damage, the role of gene therapy in correcting specific genetic defects, and the use of stem cell therapies aimed at retinal regeneration by showcasing the latest clinical trials and precision medicine approaches.

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ABCA4Drug therapyGene therapyStargardt diseaseStem cell therapy

Identifiers

PMID39060921
PMCPMC11282698

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