The Red-Hot Research Papers of 2007

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D.N. Spergel, et al., " Three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Implications for cosmology," Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 170(2): 377-408, June 2007.

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R.J. Motzer, et al., "Sunitinib versus interferon alfa in metastatic renal-cell carcinoma," New Engl. J. Med., 356(2): 115-24, 11 January 2007.

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B. Escudier, et al., "Sorafenib in advanced clear-cell renal-cell carcinoma," New Engl. J. Med., 356(2): 125-34, 11 January 2007.

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S.E. Nissen, K. Wolski, "Effect of rosiglitazone on the risk of myocardial infarction and death from cardiovascular causes," New Engl. J. Med., 356(24): 2457-71, 14 June 2007.

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R. Sladek, et al., "A genome-wide association study identifies novel risk loci for type 2 diabetes,"Nature, 445(7130): 881-5, 22 February 2007.

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G.W. Stone, et al., "Safety and efficacy of sirolimus- and paclitaxel-eluting coronary stents," New Engl. J. Med., 356(10): 998-1008, 8 March 2007.

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E.L. Eisenstein, et al., "Clopidogrel use and long-term clinical outcomes after drug-eluting stent implantation," JAMA, 297(2): 159-68, 10 January 2007.

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L.J. Scott, et al., "A genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes in Finns detects multiple susceptibility variants," Science, 316(5829): 1341-5, 1 June 2007.

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C. Kimchi-Sarfaty, et al., "A ‘silent’ polymorphism in the MDR1 gene changes substrate specificity,"Science, 315(5811): 525-8, 26 January 2007.

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B. Lagerqvist, et al., "Long-term outcomes with drug-eluting stents versus bare-metal stents in Sweden," New Engl. J. Med., 356(10): 1009-19, 8 March 2007.

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P.M.A. Calverley, et al., "Salmeterol and fluticasone propionate and survival in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease," New Engl. J. Med., 356(8): 775-89, 22 February 2007.

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A. Kastrati, et al., "Analysis of 14 trials comparing sirolimus-eluting stents with bare-metal stents,"New Engl. J. Med., 356(10): 1030-9, 8 March 2007.

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W.E. Boden, et al., "Optimal medical therapy with or without PCI for stable coronary disease," New Engl. J. Med., 356(15): 1503-16, 12 April 2007.

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J. Hampe, et al., "A genome-wide association scan of nonsynonymous SNPs identifies a susceptibility variant for Crohn disease in ATG16L1," Nature Genetics, 39(2): 207-11, February 2007.

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E. Zeggini, et al., "Replication of genome-wide association signals in UK samples reveals risk loci for type 2 diabetes," Science, 316(5829): 1336-41, 1 June 2007.

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J. Daemen, et al., "Early and late coronary stent thrombosis of sirolimus-eluting and paclitaxel-eluting stents in routine clinical practice: Data from a large two-institutional cohort study," Lancet, 369(9562): 667-78, 24 February 2007.

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FUTURE II Study Group (L.L. Villa, et al.), "Quadrivalent vaccine against human papillomavirus to prevent high-grade cervical lesions," New Engl. J. Med., 356(19): 1915-27, 10 May 2007.

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ENCODE Project Consortium (E. Birney, et al.), "Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project," Nature, 447(7146): 799-816, 14 June 2007.

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L. Mauri, et al., "Stent thrombosis in randomized clinical trials of drug-eluting stents," New Engl. J. Med., 356(10): 1020-9, 8 March 2007.

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M. Obeid, et al., "Calreticulin exposure dictates the immunogenicity of cancer cell death," Nature Medicine, 13(1): 54-61, January 2007.

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S.N. Willis, et al., "Apoptosis initiated when BH3 ligands engage multiple Bcl-2 homologs, not Bax or Bak," Science, 315(5813): 856-9, 9 February 2007.

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W.A. High, et al., "Gadolinium is detectable within the tissue of patients with nephrogenic systemic fibrosis," J. Am. Acad. Dermatol., 56(1): 21-6, January 2007.

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R.C. Bailey, et al., "Male circumcision for HIV prevention in young men in Kisumu, Kenya: a randomised controlled trial," Lancet, 369(9562): 643-56, 24 February 2007.

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T.M. Frayling, et al., "A common variant in the FTO gene is associated with body mass index and predisposes to childhood and adult obesity," Science, 316(5826): 889-94, 11 May 2007.

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S.E. Nissen, et al., "Effect of torcetrapib on the progression of coronary atherosclerosis," New Engl. J. Med., 356(13): 1304-16, 29 March 2007.

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C. Greenman, et al., "Patterns of somatic mutation in human cancer genomes," Nature, 446(7132): 153-8, 8 March 2007.

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C. Spaulding, et al., "A pooled analysis of data comparing sirolimus-eluting stents with bare-metal stents," New Engl. J. Med., 356(10): 989-97, 8 March 2007.

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R.H. Gray, et al., "Male circumcision for HIV prevention in men in Rakai, Uganda: a randomised trial," Lancet, 369(9562): 657-66, 24 February 2007.

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A. Phrommintikul, et al., "Mortality and target haemoglobin concentrations in anaemic patients with chronic kidney disease treated with erythropoietin: a meta-analysis," Lancet, 369(9559): 381-8, 3 February 2007.

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C.W. Li, et al., "Identification of pancreatic cancer stem cells," Cancer Res., 67(3): 1030-7, 1 February 2007.

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L.M. Scott, et al., "JAK2 exon 12 mutations in polysythemia vera and idiopathic erythrocytosis," New Engl. J. Med., 356(5): 459-68, 1 February 2007.

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D.R. Broome, et al., "Gadodiamide-associated nephrogenic systemic fibrosis: Why radiologists should be concerned," Am. J. Roentgenol., 188(2): 586-92, February 2007.

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A.S. Boyd, et al., "Gadolinium deposition in nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy," J. Am. Acad. Dermatol., 56(1): 27-30, January 2007.

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K.K. Wong, et al., "A comprehensive analysis of common copy-number variations in the human genome," Am. J. Human Genetics, 80(1): 91-104, January 2007.

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W. Xue, et al., "Senescence and tumour clearance is triggered by p53 restoration in murine liver carcinomas," Nature, 445(7128): 656-60, 8 February 2007.

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D. Dudziak, et al., "Differential antigen processing by dendritic cell subsets in vivo," Science, 315(5808): 107-11, 5 January 2007.

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L. Page, et al., "Three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Polarization analysis," Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 170(2): 335-76, June 2007.

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J.D. Rioux, et al., "Genome-wide association study identifies new susceptibility loci for Crohn disease and implicates autophagy in disease pathogenesis," Nature Genetics, 39(5): 596-604, May 2007.

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P.D. Home, et al., "Rosiglitazone evaluated for cardiovascular outcomes: an interim analysis," New Engl. J. Med., 357(1): 28-38, 5 July 2007.

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Y. Zheng, et al., "Interleukin-22, a T(H)17 cytokine, mediates IL-23-induced dermal inflammation and acanthosis," Nature, 445(7128): 648-51, 8 February 2007.

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J.E. Green, et al., "A 160-kilobit molecular electronic memory patterned at 10(11) bits per square centimetre," Nature, 445(7126): 414-7, 25 January 2007.

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R. Liu, et al., "The prognostic role of a gene signature from tumorigenic breast-cancer cells," New Engl. J. Med., 356(3): 217-26, 18 January 2007.

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SOURCE: Thomson Scientific Web of Science^®
(Citations recorded as of late December 2007)