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).

• 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

• DNA methylation and mRNA expression of SYN III, a candidate gene for schizophrenia.

  PMID 19102774 · PMC2630979 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Variation in SYN III distal CpG island methylation is not related to schizophrenia in the population sample or in a monozygotic twin pair discordant for schizophrenia

  brain blood non-human semi-quantitative sodium bisulfite

• Targeting the epigenome and the integrated stress response to normalize colorectal cancer subclonal plasticity and progression.

  PMID 41963303 · PMC13181133 · Cell death & disease · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  The integrated stress response induces colorectal cancer cell plasticity, subclonal diversity, and tumor progression in stress-surviving cells

  ht29-derived nod ±dox ht29 qpcr death tumor

• 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.

  cd4+ computational hep direct simulation epigraph

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The nasal methylome shows differential DNA methylation in intergenic regions and low methylated regions (LMRs), highlighting distal regulatory/enhancer-like elements in COVID-19 gene regulation

  nasal aggregated severe differentially genome methylation differential

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Methylation of class II transactivator gene promoter IV is not associated with susceptibility to multiple sclerosis.

  PMID 18606010 · PMC2464579 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Methylation of the MHC2TA promoter pIV is not associated with MS susceptibility; no methylation was detected in any twin sample regardless of disease status

  peripheral mhc2ta pcr sanger bisulfite cpg

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Systematic benchmarking of tools for CpG methylation detection from nanopore sequencing.

  PMID 34103501 · PMC8187371 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Nanopore methylation detection tools exhibit a tradeoff between false positives and false negatives and high dispersion relative to expected per-site methylation frequencies.

  coli lymphoblastoid na12878 mixture nanopore cas9-targeted whole-genome

• A computational pipeline to visualize DNA-protein binding states using dSMF data.

  PMID 35463472 · PMC9026571 · STAR protocols · 2022 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  The pipeline maps states of protein-binding DNA in vivo using dSMF data and identifies binding states at an enhancer in Drosophila S2 cells

  drosophila dual-enzyme starr-seq

• Whole genome and transcriptome maps of the entirely black native Korean chicken breed Yeonsan Ogye.

  PMID 30010758 · PMC6065499 · GigaScience · 2018 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  A hybrid de novo assembly combining high-depth Illumina short reads (376.6X) and low-depth PacBio long reads (9.7X) produced the YO draft genome Ogye_1.1 with contig and scaffold NG50 of 362.3 Kbp and 16.8 Mbp.

  yeonsan tissues ogye_1.1 locus whole-genome sequencing reduced

• Evidence for L1-associated DNA rearrangements and negligible L1 retrotransposition in glioblastoma multiforme.

  PMID 27843499 · PMC5105311 · Mobile DNA · 2016 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Canonical (endonuclease-dependent, TPRT-driven) L1 retrotransposition is absent or negligible in GBM tumours and cultured GBM cell lines

  brain tumour gbm retrotransposon empty qrt-pcr