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).

• A causal glycerophospholipid-IL-18R1-CD9 axis connects lipid metabolism and T-cell activation in atopic dermatitis.

  PMID 42061907 · PMC13132603 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  1-palmitoyl-2-arachidonoyl-GPC (PA-GPC) is a protective metabolite against AD that acts primarily by downregulating IL-18R1

  gwas skin training keratinocyte linkage two-sample bayesian

• Unraveling the Causal Linkages of RBP7 and SCGB3A1 on Pelvic Organ Prolapse: Multifaceted Insights From Genome-Wide Mendelian Randomization, Single-Cell RNA Analysis, and Network Pharmacology.

  PMID 41497737 · PMC12765987 · BioMed research international · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  High RBP7 expression causally increases POP risk

  vaginal gwas rbp7 key single-cell mendelian protein-protein

• Comprehensive analysis of the causal risk factor from hypertension associated with prognosis and therapeutic response in renal cell carcinoma by multi-omics analysis and validation.

  PMID 41680825 · PMC12998095 · Biology direct · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 48-gene cross-species hypertension (HTN) gene module identified from human and SHR rat scRNA-seq can classify ccRCC patients into two molecular subgroups with distinct survival and targeted therapy response

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• Genetic evidence supporting obesity as a risk factor for lung squamous cell carcinoma and the identification of MFAP1 as a shared genetic target.

  PMID 41820721 · PMC13096280 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  BMI and LUSC show a significant positive genome-wide genetic correlation, robust to constrained-intercept sensitivity analysis and replicated by GNOVA.

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• Estimating in silico causal effects of DNA methylation on gene expression through genetic anchors in airway epithelium in asthma.

  PMID 42018614 · PMC13101850 · Science advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DNA methylation is a plausible causal driver of gene expression in the majority (73%) of tested eQTM pairs, more often than the reverse direction (28%)

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• miRbiom: Machine-learning on Bayesian causal nets of RBP-miRNA interactions successfully predicts miRNA profiles.

  PMID 34637468 · PMC8509996 · PloS one · 2021 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  RBPs beyond Drosha/DGCR8/Dicer are involved in regulating miRNA biogenesis and explain its spatio-temporal nature

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• Multi-INTACT: integrative analysis of the genome, transcriptome, and proteome identifies causal mechanisms of complex traits.

  PMID 39901160 · PMC11789355 · Genome biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  Multi-INTACT achieves higher power than existing single-gene-product methods while maintaining calibrated false discovery rates in simulations.

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• Differentially expressed genes reflect disease-induced rather than disease-causing changes in the transcriptome.

  PMID 34561431 · PMC8463674 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  revTWMR, a reverse transcriptome-wide Mendelian Randomization approach integrating GWAS and whole-blood trans-eQTL summary statistics, is proposed to estimate the causal effect of a phenotype on gene expression.

  blood ra-associated genome-wide revtwmr transcriptome-wide reverse functional

• Identification of potential therapeutic targets for nonischemic cardiomyopathy in European ancestry: an integrated multiomics analysis.

  PMID 39267096 · PMC11396958 · Cardiovascular diabetology · 2024 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Two-sample MR analysis identified 255 circulating plasma proteins associated with NISCM

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• Integrated multi-omics analysis combined with clinical validation reveals that HLA-DRB5 and ODAPH are causal risk genes for keratoconus.

  PMID 41803193 · PMC13179358 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  2,884 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified as the union of upregulated genes from two independent KC transcriptome datasets (GSE151631, GSE77938), enriched in cell adhesion, immune response, and TNF/IL-17 signaling pathways.

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• SEMdag: Fast learning of Directed Acyclic Graphs via node or layer ordering.

  PMID 39775401 · PMC11709272 · PloS one · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  SEMdag() is a two-step order-based algorithm for fast learning of high-dimensional linear SEMs, using knowledge-based (KB) or data-driven bottom-up (BU) node/layer ordering followed by penalized (L1) DAG estimation

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• Simultaneous analysis of all SNPs in genome-wide and re-sequencing association studies.

  PMID 18654633 · PMC2464715 · PLoS genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A Bayesian-inspired penalised maximum likelihood stochastic search method can simultaneously analyse all SNPs (up to 500K) from a GWA study in a few hours on a desktop workstation

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• A genome-wide association analysis identifies 16 novel susceptibility loci for carpal tunnel syndrome.

  PMID 30833571 · PMC6399342 · Nature communications · 2019 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  A GWAS of 12,312 CTS cases and 389,344 controls in UK Biobank identifies 16 novel genome-wide significant susceptibility loci for CTS

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• Genetics of circulating inflammatory proteins identifies drivers of immune-mediated disease risk and therapeutic targets.

  PMID 37563310 · PMC10457199 · Nature immunology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Genome-wide pQTL mapping of 91 inflammation-related plasma proteins in 14,824 participants identified 180 significant pQTLs (59 cis, 121 trans) across 108 genomic regions and 70 proteins

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• Positive Relationships between Intraocular Pressure and Thyroid Function in Graves' Ophthalmopathy: A Three-Aspect Evidence Analysis.

  PMID 40992768 · PMC12479196 · Yonsei medical journal · 2025 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Thyroid function parameters (FT3, FT4) and disease activity (CAS) are significantly associated with elevated IOP in GO patients

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• LRP1 as a potential diagnostic and immunomodulatory target in endometriosis: evidence from multi-omics and single-cell analyses.

  PMID 42064072 · PMC13124487 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  LRP1 is a hub gene with the highest diagnostic performance among 30 candidate hub genes identified by machine learning

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• A hybrid empirical and parametric approach for managing ecosystem complexity: Water quality in Lake Geneva under nonstationary futures.

  PMID 35733249 · PMC9245694 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A hybrid model combining empirical dynamic modeling (EDM/S-map) for biogeochemical sink terms with the equation-based Simstrat hydrodynamic model for physical source terms produces substantially better historical DOB forecasts than conventional parametric models.

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• PowerBacGWAS: a computational pipeline to perform power calculations for bacterial genome-wide association studies.

  PMID 35338232 · PMC8956664 · Communications biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Two computational approaches (sub-sampling and phenotype-simulation) can be implemented to perform power calculations for bacterial GWAS using existing genome collections, packaged as the PowerBacGWAS pipeline

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• Whole genome association mapping by incompatibilities and local perfect phylogenies.

  PMID 17042942 · PMC1624851 · BMC bioinformatics · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Blossoc scores the perfect phylogenetic tree spanning the largest compatible region around each marker as a decision tree for case/control status to detect association

  coalescent-simulated artificial empirical same perfect-phylogeny hapminer haplotype

• Integrated weighted gene co-expression network analysis with an application to chronic fatigue syndrome.

  PMID 18986552 · PMC2625353 · BMC systems biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Integrated WGCNA (IWGCNA), which adds genetic marker-based causality testing to standard WGCNA, can identify a disease-related module and its causal drivers

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