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The Role of Knockout Olfactory Receptor Genes in Odor Discrimination.

Maria Pina Concas, Massimiliano Cocca, Margherita Francescatto, Thomas Battistuzzi, Beatrice Spedicati, Agnese Feresin, Anna Morgan, Paolo Gasparini, Giorgia Girotto

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Article in Genes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 51% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Maria Pina ConcasInstitute for Maternal and Child Health-IRCCS, Burlo Garofolo, 34127 Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3598-2537
Massimiliano CoccaInstitute for Maternal and Child Health-IRCCS, Burlo Garofolo, 34127 Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1127-7596
Margherita FrancescattoDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, 34149 Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1232-7302
Thomas BattistuzziDepartment of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy.
Beatrice SpedicatiDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, 34149 Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7432-4708
Agnese FeresinDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, 34149 Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4187-6282
Anna MorganInstitute for Maternal and Child Health-IRCCS, Burlo Garofolo, 34127 Trieste, Italy.
Paolo GaspariniInstitute for Maternal and Child Health-IRCCS, Burlo Garofolo, 34127 Trieste, Italy.
Giorgia GirottoInstitute for Maternal and Child Health-IRCCS, Burlo Garofolo, 34127 Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4507-6589
University of Trieste · ITIRCCS Materno Infantile Burlo Garofolo · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To date, little is known about the role of olfactory receptor (OR) genes on smell performance. Thanks to the availability of whole-genome sequencing data of 802 samples, we identified 41 knockout (KO) OR genes (i.e., carriers of Loss of Function variants) and evaluated their effect on odor discrimination in 218 Italian individuals through recursive partitioning analysis. Furthermore, we checked the expression of these genes in human and mouse tissues using publicly available data and the presence of organ-related diseases in human KO (HKO) individuals for OR expressed in non-olfactory tissues (Fisher test). The recursive partitioning analysis showed that age and the high number (burden) of OR-KO genes impact the worsening of odor discrimination (

Indexed as

Olfactory PerceptionSmellAgedAnimalsFemaleHumansLoss of Function MutationMaleMiceMiddle AgedReceptors, OdorantReceptors, Odorantgene expressionhuman knockoutsloss of function variantsodor discriminationolfactory receptors geneswhole-genome sequencing

Identifiers

PMID33922566
PMCPMC8145969
OpenAlexW3158934509

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