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ReviewClinical epigenetics2021

Clinical epigenetics settings for cancer and cardiovascular diseases: real-life applications of network medicine at the bedside.

Federica Sarno, Giuditta Benincasa, Markus List, Albert-Lazlo Barabasi, Jan Baumbach, Fortunato Ciardiello, Sebastiano Filetti, Kimberly Glass, Joseph Loscalzo, Cinzia Marchese and 9 more

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Review in Clinical epigenetics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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37citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Big Data in cardiac surgery: real world and perspectives.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2022
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  11. Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity: A Comprehensive Update.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 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

19 authors.

Federica Sarno *Department of Precision Medicine, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy.
Giuditta Benincasa *Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences (DAMSS), University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.
Markus List *Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
Albert-Lazlo BarabasiNetwork Science Institute and Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Jan BaumbachChair of Experimental Bioinformatics, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
Fortunato CiardielloDepartment of Precision Medicine, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy.
Sebastiano FilettiSchool of Health, Unitelma Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
Kimberly GlassChanning Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Joseph LoscalzoDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Cinzia MarcheseDepartment of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Bradley A MaronDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Paola PaciDepartment of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
Paolo PariniDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Enrico PetrilloDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Edwin K SilvermanChanning Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Antonella VerrientiDepartment of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
Lucia Altucci *Department of Precision Medicine, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy. lucia.altucci@unicampania.it.ORCID 0000-0002-7312-5387
Claudio Napoli *Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences (DAMSS), University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.
International Network Medicine Consortium

Funding

Campania Regional Government FASE2: IDEAL B63D18000560007Campania Regional Government​Technology​Platform​Lotta allePatologie Oncologiche: iCURE B21C17000030007EPICHEMBIO CM1406Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 777111Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca PRIN2017F8ZB89
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite impressive efforts invested in epigenetic research in the last 50 years, clinical applications are still lacking. Only a few university hospital centers currently use epigenetic biomarkers at the bedside. Moreover, the overall concept of precision medicine is not widely recognized in routine medical practice and the reductionist approach remains predominant in treating patients affected by major diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases. By its' very nature, epigenetics is integrative of genetic networks. The study of epigenetic biomarkers has led to the identification of numerous drugs with an increasingly significant role in clinical therapy especially of cancer patients. Here, we provide an overview of clinical epigenetics within the context of network analysis. We illustrate achievements to date and discuss how we can move from traditional medicine into the era of network medicine (NM), where pathway-informed molecular diagnostics will allow treatment selection following the paradigm of precision medicine.

Indexed as

BiomarkersPoint-of-Care SystemsCardiovascular DiseasesEpigenesis, GeneticHumansNeoplasmsPrecision MedicineBiomarkersAlgorithmsCancerCVDEpi-drugsEpigeneticsNetwork medicinePrecision medicine

Identifiers

PMID33785068
PMCPMC8010949

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