Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• Bisulfite sequencing of chromatin immunoprecipitated DNA (BisChIP-seq) directly informs methylation status of histone-modified DNA.

  PMID 22466171 · PMC3371705 · Genome research · 2012 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  BisChIP-seq — bisulfite sequencing of chromatin immunoprecipitated DNA — enables direct genome-wide, base-resolution interrogation of DNA methylation on histone-modified DNA molecules

  lncap sonicated adaptor-modified native bischip-seq chromatin chip-qpcr

• Widely variable endogenous retroviral methylation levels in human placenta.

  PMID 17617638 · PMC1950553 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  Three HERV-E LTRs that function as alternative gene promoters (LTR-PTN, LTR-EBR, LTR-MID1) are unmethylated in placenta but heavily methylated in blood cells, where they are not active promoters

  term placenta genome bisulfite rt-pcr genome-wide

• Recovery of bisulfite-converted genomic sequences in the methylation-sensitive QPCR.

  PMID 17439964 · PMC1888819 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Bisulfite treatment causes DNA strand breakage (via abasic site formation and beta-elimination) in addition to cytosine deamination.

  genomic synthetic bisulfite-treated cloned methylation-sensitive quantitative gel

• Non-imprinted allele-specific DNA methylation on human autosomes.

  PMID 19958531 · PMC2812945 · Genome biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  SNPs within CpG islands are associated with allele-specific DNA methylation differences between alleles.

  leukocytes leukocyte hek293 bisulfite methylation-sensitive cdna

• The stem cell population of the human colon crypt: analysis via methylation patterns.

  PMID 17335343 · PMC1808490 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  A coalescent-based, full probabilistic model with MCMC Bayesian inference provides a more powerful alternative to prior forward-simulation approaches for analyzing methylation pattern data from crypts.

  colon computational simulated bisulfite coalescent posterior

• APC promoter methylation and protein expression in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 17973119 · PMC2757596 · Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2008 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  APC promoter methylation is significantly higher in HCC compared to non-cancerous liver tissue

  hcc liver cholangiocellular benign methylight truncation western

• DNA methylation analysis by digital bisulfite genomic sequencing and digital MethyLight.

  PMID 18628296 · PMC2504308 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Digital PCR compartmentalizes individual bisulfite-converted DNA template molecules into separate wells, enabling single-molecule DNA methylation analysis

  fresh-frozen same sssi-methylated mixture digital conventional classic

• DNA methylation profiles at hospital admission are associated with subsequent severe COVID-19 outcomes.

  PMID 42021404 · PMC13251264 · Clinical epigenetics · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  DNA methylation profiles at hospital admission differ among disease trajectory groups (TGs) and are associated with subsequent disease progression.

  pbmcs blood immune end-stage targeted rna-seq mass

• M(5)C-driven stabilization of SERPINB5 promotes cervical cancer progression and chemotherapy resistance.

  PMID 41673397 · PMC12921336 · Cell death & disease · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RNA m5C levels are globally and consistently elevated in cervical tumors compared to normal cervical tissue

  cervical hela nsun2 bisulfite bulk spatial

• Methylation patterns of the nasal epigenome of hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 positive patients reveal insights into molecular mechanisms of COVID-19.

  PMID 40170038 · PMC11963311 · BMC medical genomics · 2025 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Differential DNA methylation occurs predominantly in intergenic regions and low methylated regions (LMRs), highlighting the role of distal regulatory elements in COVID-19 severity.

  nasal aggregated genes differentially whole-genome methylation tiling

• Investigating epigenetic biomarkers of age, sex, and disease in captive South African cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus).

  PMID 41528985 · PMC12798976 · PloS one · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A cheetah-specific epigenetic clock (CheetahClock) built from 52 CpG sites predicts age across blood and liver samples with r=0.97 and MAE=0.86 years

  cheetah genes methylation elastic epigenome-wide

• EpiDiverse Toolkit: a pipeline suite for the analysis of bisulfite sequencing data in ecological plant epigenetics.

  PMID 34805989 · PMC8598301 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  EpiDiverse Toolkit provides Nextflow-based pipelines for WGBS mapping, methylation calling, variant calling, differential methylation, and EWAS tailored to non-model plant ecology

  populus nigra genome variant clustering

• CHD5, a tumor suppressor gene deleted from 1p36.31 in neuroblastomas.

  PMID 18577749 · PMC2483574 · Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  CHD5 promoter is highly methylated in neuroblastoma cell lines with 1p deletion and absent CHD5 expression (NLF, IMR5)

  neuroblastoma nlf athymic methylation-specific quantitative soft

• Inter-individual variation of DNA methylation and its implications for large-scale epigenome mapping.

  PMID 18413340 · PMC2425484 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CpG-rich regions (CpG islands) show low and similar methylation levels across individuals, but the sequential order of the few methylated CpGs among the many unmethylated ones varies randomly between individuals.

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• A comprehensive resource of genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic sequencing data for the black truffle Tuber melanosporum.

  PMID 25392735 · PMC4228822 · GigaScience · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  T. melanosporum shows a high rate of cytosine methylation (>44%) that selectively targets transposable elements rather than genes, with a strong preference for CpG sites.

  tuber ectomycorrhizal melanosporum rna-seq whole-genome sequencing guided

• epiGBS2: Improvements and evaluation of highly multiplexed, epiGBS-based reduced representation bisulfite sequencing.

  PMID 35178872 · PMC9311447 · Molecular ecology resources · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  epiGBS2 provides a laboratory protocol and revised bioinformatics pipeline for de novo cytosine methylation and SNP calling in species with or without a reference genome

  arabidopsis great epigbs2 demultiplexed epigbs2 pcr demultiplexing

• Single nucleotide extension technology for quantitative site-specific evaluation of metC/C in GC-rich regions.

  PMID 15958788 · PMC1150895 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  SNaPshot primers with mismatches to upstream bisulfite-induced C/T or G/A polymorphisms produce a position-dependent biasing effect of up to 70%, decreasing as the mismatch moves farther upstream of the target cytosine

  comt synthetic genomic snapshot

• High throughput detection of M6P/IGF2R intronic hypermethylation and LOH in ovarian cancer.

  PMID 16432260 · PMC1345698 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A 96-well high-throughput bisulfite modification (HTBM) method was developed and validated against single-sample bisulfite modification (SSBM), producing comparable methylation results even from as little as 3 ng DNA.

  genomic normal advanced bisulfite-treated methylation-specific bisulfite snp

• BiSearch: primer-design and search tool for PCR on bisulfite-treated genomes.

  PMID 15653630 · PMC546182 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  BiSearch is a new web-available primer-design software for bisulfite-treated genomes that also analyzes primer pairs for mispriming sites via a novel search algorithm.

  tyrosine homo hek primer post-design pcr

• BRAF, KRAS and PIK3CA mutations in colorectal serrated polyps and cancer: primary or secondary genetic events in colorectal carcinogenesis?

  PMID 18782444 · PMC2553419 · BMC cancer · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  KRAS, BRAF and PIK3CA mutations occur in the majority of colorectal polyps and are mutually exclusive

  formalin-fixed colorectal sporadic polyps pcr bisulfite pentaplex