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ReviewInternational journal of cancer2026

Enhancer-dependent gene regulation in space, time, and malignancies.

Belinda Blum, Victoria Dachtler, Angelika Feldmann

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Review in International journal of cancer, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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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

2 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

3 authors.

Belinda BlumMechanisms of Genome Control, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Victoria DachtlerMechanisms of Genome Control, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Angelika FeldmannMechanisms of Genome Control, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7094-8081

Funding

European Research Council ERC-STG 101115812Helmholtz Association VH-NG-1604
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Control of cell-type-specific gene activation requires the coordinated activity of distal regulatory elements, including enhancers, whose inputs must be temporally integrated. Dysregulation of this regulatory capacity, such as aberrant usage of enhancers, can result in malignant transformation of cells. In this review, we provide an overview of our current understanding of enhancer-driven gene regulation and discuss how this activity may be integrated across time, followed by epigenetic and structural alterations of enhancers in cancers.

Indexed as

Enhancer Elements, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticNeoplasmsAnimalsEpigenesis, GeneticHumanscancer epigeneticsdistal regulatory elementsenhancer hijackinggenome structuretemporal dynamics

Identifiers

PMID39887412
PMCPMC12628038

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