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Lack of evidence for xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus(XMRV) in German prostate cancer patients

Overview of attention for article published in Retrovirology, October 2009
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#44 of 1,102)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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Title
Lack of evidence for xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus(XMRV) in German prostate cancer patients
Published in
Retrovirology, October 2009
DOI 10.1186/1742-4690-6-92
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Authors

Oliver Hohn, Hans Krause, Pia Barbarotto, Lars Niederstadt, Nadine Beimforde, Joachim Denner, Kurt Miller, Reinhard Kurth, Norbert Bannert

Abstract

A novel gammaretrovirus named xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) has been recently identified and found to have a prevalence of 40% in prostate tumor samples from American patients carrying a homozygous R462Q mutation in the RNaseL gene. This mutation impairs the function of the innate antiviral type I interferon pathway and is a known susceptibility factor for prostate cancer. Here, we attempt to measure the prevalence of XMRV in prostate cancer cases in Germany and determine whether an analogous association with the R462Q polymorphism exists.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 5%
United Kingdom 1 2%
Chile 1 2%
Spain 1 2%
Denmark 1 2%
Unknown 58 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 22 34%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 17%
Professor 7 11%
Student > Bachelor 5 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 12 18%
Unknown 4 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 28 43%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 18%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 6%
Psychology 1 2%
Other 7 11%
Unknown 7 11%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. 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 02 September 2015.
All research outputs
#1,120,089
of 22,655,397 outputs
Outputs from Retrovirology
#44
of 1,102 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,134
of 93,235 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Retrovirology
#2
of 34 outputs
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