ArticleNucleic acids research2025
Nucleolar FRG2 lncRNAs inhibit rRNA transcription and cytoplasmic translation, linking FSHD to dysregulation of muscle-specific protein synthesis.
Article in Nucleic acids research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 5 papers.
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
5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Novel biomarkers for sarcopenia: a narrative review.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2026Review
- Ribosome Biogenesis and Translational Control in Skeletal Muscle Atrophy and Hypertrophy: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Perspectives.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- Rethinking genomics of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy in the telomere-to-telomere era: pitfalls in the hidden landscape of D4Z4 repeats.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2026Article
- DUX4-induced HSATII RNA accumulation drives protein aggregation, impacting RNA processing pathways.The Journal of cell biology · 2026Article
- Chemical inhibition of SUMOylation activates the FSHD locus.Scientific reports · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
14 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a hereditary myopathy linked to deletions of the tandemly arrayed D4Z4 macrosatellite at human chromosome 4q35. These deletions cause local chromatin changes and anomalous expression of nearby transcripts FRG2A, DBET, and D4Z4. We discovered that FRG2A is part of a family of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) expressed in skeletal muscle cells, with levels varying among patients. FRG2A localizes in the nucleolus and associates with repetitive DNA at ribosomal DNA (rDNA) loci and centromeres. Elevated FRG2A expression in FSHD cells alters the three-dimensional architecture of heterochromatin at the nucleolar periphery and reduces rDNA transcription and translation rates, resulting in decreased synthesis of skeletal muscle proteins. We also show that myoblasts from FSHD patients display reduced synthesis of skeletal muscle proteins during differentiation. Our results support a disease model in which nucleolar accumulation of D4Z4-driven lncRNA impairs protein synthesis and contributes to muscle wasting.
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.