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ReviewGenes2023

The Developmental Origins of Cancer: A Review of the Genes Expressed in Embryonic Cells with Implications for Tumorigenesis.

Savitha Balachandran, Aru Narendran

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Review in Genes, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Deciphering of SOX9 Functions in Pancreatic Cancer Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  12. A fetal oncogene NUAK2 is an emerging therapeutic target in glioblastoma.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  15. All eyes on Eya: A unique transcriptional co-activator and phosphatase in cancer.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Reviews on cancer · 2024
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Savitha BalachandranDepartments of Pediatrics, Oncology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Physiology and Pharmacology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.
Aru NarendranDepartments of Pediatrics, Oncology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Physiology and Pharmacology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4898-477X
University of Calgary · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumorigenesis, which involves the uncontrolled proliferation and differentiation of cells, has been observed to imitate a variety of pathways vital to embryonic development, motivating cancer researchers to explore the genetic origins of these pathways. The pluripotency gene regulatory network is an established collection of genes that induces stemness in embryonic cells. Dysregulation in the expression genes of the pluripotency gene networks including

Indexed as

CarcinogenesisTumor Suppressor Protein p53Argonaute ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsCell DifferentiationCell Transformation, NeoplasticEpithelial-Mesenchymal TransitionHumansProto-Oncogene ProteinsArgonaute ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsMDM4 protein, humanPIWIL1 protein, humanProto-Oncogene ProteinsTumor Suppressor Protein p53developmentalembryonicgeneticpluripotencytumorigenesis

Identifiers

PMID36980876
PMCPMC10048275
OpenAlexW4322620203

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