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“The Race” to Clone BRCA1

Overview of attention for article published in Science, March 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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1 news outlet
blogs
4 blogs
twitter
33 X users
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1 patent
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user

Citations

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165 Mendeley
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Title
“The Race” to Clone BRCA1
Published in
Science, March 2014
DOI 10.1126/science.1251900
Pubmed ID
Authors

Mary-Claire King

Abstract

The existence of BRCA1 was proven in 1990 by mapping predisposition to young-onset breast cancer in families to chromosome 17q21. Knowing that such a gene existed and approximately where it lay triggered efforts by public and private groups to clone and sequence it. The press baptized the competition "the race" and reported on it in detail for the next 4 years. BRCA1 was positionally cloned in September 1994. Twenty years later, I reflect on "the race" and its consequences for breast cancer prevention and treatment.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 161 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 17%
Student > Bachelor 27 16%
Researcher 26 16%
Student > Master 19 12%
Professor 13 8%
Other 31 19%
Unknown 21 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 47 28%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 47 28%
Medicine and Dentistry 21 13%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 2%
Computer Science 3 2%
Other 14 8%
Unknown 29 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 75. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 September 2022.
All research outputs
#537,419
of 24,476,221 outputs
Outputs from Science
#12,126
of 79,792 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,897
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Outputs of similar age from Science
#122
of 846 outputs
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