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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2021

Alternative Splicing: A New Cause and Potential Therapeutic Target in Autoimmune Disease.

Pingping Ren, Luying Lu, Shasha Cai, Jianghua Chen, Weiqiang Lin, Fei Han

Erratum issuedOpen access · goldAbstract readReview
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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. 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 73 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
73citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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

73 citing papers in PubMed, 97 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Pingping RenKidney Disease Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Luying LuKidney Disease Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Shasha CaiKidney Disease Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Jianghua ChenKidney Disease Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Weiqiang LinKidney Disease Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Fei HanKidney Disease Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
First Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University · CNZhejiang University · CNThe First People's Hospital of Wenling · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alternative splicing (AS) is a complex coordinated transcriptional regulatory mechanism. It affects nearly 95% of all protein-coding genes and occurs in nearly all human organs. Aberrant alternative splicing can lead to various neurological diseases and cancers and is responsible for aging, infection, inflammation, immune and metabolic disorders, and so on. Though aberrant alternative splicing events and their regulatory mechanisms are widely recognized, the association between autoimmune disease and alternative splicing has not been extensively examined. Autoimmune diseases are characterized by the loss of tolerance of the immune system towards self-antigens and organ-specific or systemic inflammation and subsequent tissue damage. In the present review, we summarized the most recent reports on splicing events that occur in the immunopathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and attempted to clarify the role that splicing events play in regulating autoimmune disease progression. We also identified the changes that occur in splicing factor expression. The foregoing information might improve our understanding of autoimmune diseases and help develop new diagnostic and therapeutic tools for them.

Indexed as

Alternative SplicingGene Expression RegulationGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseAnimalsAutoantibodiesAutoantigensAutoimmune DiseasesAutoimmunityBiomarkersHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyMutationOrgan SpecificityAutoantibodiesAutoantigensBiomarkersalternative splicingautoimmune diseaserheumatoid arthritissystemic lupus erythematosustherapy

Identifiers

PMID34484216
PMCPMC8416054
OpenAlexW3194314789

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