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).

• Somatic deletion of the NF1 gene in a neurofibromatosis type 1-associated malignant melanoma demonstrated by digital PCR.

  PMID 16961930 · PMC1570477 · Molecular cancer · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Somatic deletion of the maternal NF1 allele occurred in the melanoma of an NF1 patient, demonstrating biallelic NF1 inactivation.

  peripheral microdissected formalin-fixed microsatellite conventional digital

• CDKN2A and CDK4 mutation analysis in Italian melanoma-prone families: functional characterization of a novel CDKN2A germ line mutation.

  PMID 11556834 · PMC2375081 · British journal of cancer · 2001 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Germ line CDKN2A mutations were found in 5 of 15 (33.3%) Italian melanoma-prone families, including one novel mutation (P48T) and three known pathogenic mutations (R24P, G101W, N71S)

  genomic radiolabelled tig-er u2os sscp protein-protein retroviral

• Germline mutations of the INK4a-ARF gene in patients with suspected genetic predisposition to melanoma.

  PMID 14735200 · PMC2409576 · British journal of cancer · 2004 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  Seven germline INK4a-ARF changes (five novel) were found in 7 of 89 patients (8%) suspected of genetic predisposition to melanoma.

  genomic pcr real-time

• Molecular genetic analysis of the cytochrome P450-debrisoquine hydroxylase locus and association with cancer susceptibility.

  PMID 1486838 · PMC1519624 · Environmental health perspectives · 1992 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A PCR-RFLP DNA-based assay targeting the intron 3/exon 4 G-to-A transition can identify approximately 70-80% of CYP2D6 poor metabolizers (PMs) without drug phenotyping.

  blood pcr-rflp

• Oncogenic mutations in GNAQ occur early in uveal melanoma.

  PMID 18719078 · PMC2634606 · Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Activating GNAQ mutations at codon 209 occur in 33/67 (49%) of primary uveal melanomas, making it the most common known oncogenic mutation in UM

  uveal peripheral normal well-characterized pcr sequencing array-based

• Circulating mucosal-associated invariant T cells identify patients responding to anti-PD-1 therapy.

  PMID 33723257 · PMC7961017 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Proportions of activated and proliferating CD8+ T cells (cluster C16/activated EM) are significantly higher in responders before and during therapy

  pbmc cd3+cd8+ pbmc-derived metastatic high-dimensional single-cell polychromatic

• Mutation analysis of genes that control the G1/S cell cycle in melanoma: TP53, CDKN1A, CDKN2A, and CDKN2B.

  PMID 15819981 · PMC1097717 · BMC cancer · 2005 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  TP53 gene shows heterozygous defects in 8 of 39 (20.5%) melanoma tumors, including novel point mutations and novel SNPs in intronic sequences

  metastatic melanoma genomic pcr-sscp sequencing pcr

• Detection of BRAF mutations in the tumour and serum of patients enrolled in the AZD6244 (ARRY-142886) advanced melanoma phase II study.

  PMID 19861964 · PMC2778539 · British journal of cancer · 2009 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  BRAF mutations can be detected in serum cfDNA of advanced melanoma patients using an ARMS allele-specific PCR assay

  serum-derived tumour serum ht29 arms sanger topo

• Hierarchical cell-type identifier accurately distinguishes immune-cell subtypes enabling precise profiling of tissue microenvironment with single-cell RNA-sequencing.

  PMID 36681937 · PMC10025442 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  HiCAT is a hierarchical, marker-based cell-type identifier that uses gene set analysis (GSA) scoring with markers structured in a three-level taxonomy tree (major-type, minor-type, subset)

  pbmc cord melanoma lung scrna-seq computational

• Pan-Cancer Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis Refines Multi-Origin Monocyte and Macrophage Lineages.

  PMID 41231218 · PMC12865363 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TAMs arise from two distinct origins: C1QC+ TAMs likely derive from resident tissue macrophages, while SPP1+ TAMs and ISG15+ TAMs likely originate from circulating monocytes.

  myeloid melanoma monocyte-to-macrophage coad-read scrna-seq differential developmental

• Application of proteomics in the study of tumor metastasis.

  PMID 15862116 · PMC5172469 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cell function is directly regulated through proteins, not genes or mRNA, so metastasis-related gene findings need protein-level validation via proteomics.

  young metastatic hepatocellular lines microarray 2de cdna

• Towards precise classification of cancers based on robust gene functional expression profiles.

  PMID 15774002 · PMC1274255 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Functional expression profiles (FEPs) achieve comparable or better classification performance than conventional gene expression profiles (GEPs) across four public microarray datasets

  nci60 lymphoma fep go-annotated cdna recursive hypergeometric

• Predicting preferential DNA vector insertion sites: implications for functional genomics and gene therapy.

  PMID 18047689 · PMC2106846 · Genome biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Vector insertion site preferences differ substantially between viral vectors and transposons, affecting both oncogenic risk in gene therapy and utility for functional genomics

  hela liver gene peripheral retroviral transposon hydrodynamic

• Fast, accurate, and racially unbiased pan-cancer tumor-only variant calling with tabular machine learning.

  PMID 36611079 · PMC9825621 · NPJ precision oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Tree-based (XGBoost, LightGBM) and deep-learning (TabNet) tabular ML classifiers achieve state-of-the-art somatic vs germline classification in tumor-only WES samples, outperforming PureCN.

  tcga same metastatic tumor-only whole-exome wes copy-number