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).

• 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

• 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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• 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

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• 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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• 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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• 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

• 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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• 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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• 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

  tissues computational rbps clip-seq rna-seq srna-seq

• 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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• 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.

  gwas gtex scrna-seq ldsc gnova ρ-hess

• 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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• Functional annotation and identification of candidate disease genes by computational analysis of normal tissue gene expression data.

  PMID 18560577 · PMC2409962 · PloS one · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Ranked Coexpression Groups (RCG) built from k=6 nearest coexpressed genes, combined with a majority-rule functional characterization, integrate multiple datasets/coexpression measures to generate high-confidence functional annotation predictions

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• Cell type-specific network analysis in Diversity Outbred mice identifies genes potentially responsible for human bone mineral density GWAS associations.

  PMID 41811178 · PMC12978698 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cell type-specific Bayesian and co-expression networks generated from BMSC-OB scRNA-seq data in Diversity Outbred mice can prioritize and contextualize genes underlying human BMD GWAS associations

  bmsc-ob genes mesenchymal gtex scrna-seq cellect iterativewgcna

• 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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• Context-specific regulatory genetic variation in MTOR dampens neutrophil-T cell crosstalk in pneumonia-associated sepsis.

  PMID 41741465 · PMC13057173 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The MTOR eQTL variant rs4845987 has context-specific, opposite effects on MTOR expression: decreasing it in activated T cells and increasing it in neutrophils.

  blood bulk eqtl sepsis bulk cell-type colocalisation

• Deep-learning prediction of gene expression from personal genomes.

  PMID 41495833 · PMC12869966 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Fine-tuning Enformer on paired personal WGS and RNA-seq data (Variformer) corrects Enformer's failure to predict inter-individual gene expression differences across held-out people.

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• Embeddings from language models are good learners for single-cell data analysis.

  PMID 41726097 · PMC12921509 · Patterns (New York, N.Y.) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scELMo combines LLM-derived embeddings of gene and cell metadata with raw single-cell expression data via matrix operations to generate cell embeddings without pretraining a new model

  scrna-seq multi-batch diseased perturbation clustering batch cell-type

• 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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• Deep single-cell decoding of human pancreatic islets reveals T2D β-cell gene expression defects.

  PMID 41986506 · PMC13226668 · The EMBO journal · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Single-cell transcriptome profiling of 245,878 islet cells from 48 donors (ND/PD/T2D) identifies 14 distinct, robust islet cell types detected in every donor

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