Science Research In 1992: What Fields Were The Hottest Of The Hot?

RANK PAPER CITATIONS 1 M. Leid, et al., "Purification, cloning, and RXR identity of the HeLa cell factor with which RAR or TR heterodimerizes to bind target sequences efficiently," Cell, 68(2): 377- 95, 24 January 1992. 58 2 J.D. Brook, et al., "Molecular basis of myotonic dystrophy; Expansion of a trinucleotide (CTG) repeat at the 3 end of a transcript encoding a protein kinase family member," Cell, 68(4):799-808, 20 February 1992. 47 3 W.O. Spitzer, et al., "The use of beta-agonists an

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2 J.D. Brook, et al., "Molecular basis of myotonic dystrophy; Expansion of a trinucleotide (CTG) repeat at the 3 end of a transcript encoding a protein kinase family member," Cell, 68(4):799-808, 20 February 1992. 47

3 W.O. Spitzer, et al., "The use of beta-agonists and the risk of death and near death from asthma," NEJM, 326(8):501-6, 20 February 1992. 42

4 H.G. Harley, et al., "Expansion of an unstable DNA region and phenotypic variation in myotonic dystrophy," Nature, 355(6360):545-6, 6 February 1992. 41

5 T.E. Golde, et al., "Processing of the amyloid protein precursor to potentially amyloidogenic derivatives," Science, 255(5045):728-30, 7 February 1992. 41

6 C.E. Bear, et al., "Purification and and functional reconstitution of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR)," Cell, 68(4):809-18, 21 February 1992. 39

7 C. Aslanidis, et al., "Cloning of the essential myotonic dystrophy region and mapping of the putative defect," Nature, 355(6360):548-51, 6 February ...

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