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ArticleAmerican journal of human genetics1993

Unraveling the melanocyte.

V J Hearing

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Article in American journal of human genetics, 1993. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
16citing 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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Discovery of insectFrontiers in pharmacology · 2025
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  4. Ocular Albinism Type 1 Regulates Melanogenesis in Mouse Melanocytes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2016
    Article
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  6. The Development of Sugar-Based Anti-Melanogenic Agents.International journal of molecular sciences · 2016
    Review
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  9. Complete sequence and polymorphism study of the human TYRP1 gene encoding tyrosinase-related protein 1.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 1998
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  10. Waardenburg syndrome.Journal of medical genetics · 1997
    Review
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  12. Telomere length and replicative aging in human vascular tissues.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1995
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  15. Epidermal mosaicism and Blaschko's lines.Journal of medical genetics · 1993
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  16. Defensive coloration is not a reliable indicator of fungal infection in aposematic poison frogs.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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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

1 author.

V J Hearing

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

MelanocytesAnimalsChromosome MappingHumansMelaninsMutationPigmentationMelanins

Identifiers

PMID8434579
PMCPMC1682135

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Registered trials

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