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).

• Meta-analysis of COVID-19 single-cell studies confirms eight key immune responses.

  PMID 34675242 · PMC8531356 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Only 8 of 20 previously published COVID-19 scRNA-seq findings were reproducible across all relevant datasets in a standardized meta-analysis

  pbmc bronchoalveolar nasopharyngeal combined scrna-seq tcr bcr

• Cell type-specific eQTL analysis of COVID-19 based on single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41064594 · PMC12501775 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell eQTL analysis across eight immune cell types identified 2593 genes whose expression is significantly associated with common genetic polymorphisms, with most genes showing cell type-specific effects

  pbmcs eight pbmc monocytes scrna-seq genetic cis-eqtl

• Tissue-resident macrophage and dendritic cells drive type I IFN immunity to enteroviruses in the liver.

  PMID 41592119 · PMC12858076 · PLoS pathogens · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Type I IFN signaling (Ifnar1), but not type III IFN signaling (Ifnlr1), is essential for survival and for limiting viral replication in the liver during echovirus infection

  neonatal liver survival viral h&e

• BayesRare: Bayesian mixture model for population-level rare cell type detection in multi-subject single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 41632592 · PMC12867491 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  BayesRare is a hierarchical Bayesian mixture model framework for population-level rare cell type detection in multi-subject scRNA-seq data

  synthetic breast kidney parkinson's scrna-seq

• Differential cell signaling testing for cell-cell communication inference from single-cell data by dominoSignal.

  PMID 41746282 · PMC12998610 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  dominoSignal extends the Domino algorithm to enable statistical testing of differential cell-cell signaling between experimental conditions.

  single-cell simulated pdac per-sample single-cell simulation cell-cell

• UBD: incorporating uncertainty in cell type proportion estimates from bulk samples to infer cell-type-specific profiles.

  PMID 41520227 · PMC12895075 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Existing CTS deconvolution methods (e.g., CIBERSORTx, TCA, bMIND, CellDMC, HBI) require cell type proportions that are in practice only estimated, not known, introducing unaccounted uncertainty into CTS inference.

  simulated rosmap onek1k bulk simulation-based cell-type-specific type

• Human methylome variation across Infinium 450K data on the Gene Expression Omnibus.

  PMID 33937763 · PMC8061458 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Among annotated HM450K GEO samples, about two-thirds were from blood, one-quarter from brain, and about one-third were from cancer patients.

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• Cell Specific eQTL Analysis without Sorting Cells.

  PMID 25955312 · PMC4425538 · PLoS genetics · 2015 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  A genotype x predicted-cell-count interaction (GxE) meta-analysis across whole blood datasets can detect neutrophil-specific cis-eQTLs without cell sorting

  blood neutrophils cis-eqtl cell-count rna-seq

• Systematic evaluation of single-cell multimodal data integration enhances cell type resolution and discovery of clinically relevant states in complex tissues.

  PMID 41821037 · PMC12983708 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Horizontal integration of scRNA-seq and snRNA-seq improves cell-type identification

  renal kidney pbmc heart scrna-seq snrna-seq snatac-seq

• Integrating human plasma proteomes with genome-wide association data implicates novel proteins and drug targets for rheumatoid arthritis.

  PMID 41540382 · PMC12892679 · Clinical proteomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PWAS integrating RA GWAS with ARIC and INTERVAL plasma pQTL data identified 35 genetically regulated proteins (42 associations) significantly associated with RA risk.

  plasma shared gtex blood proteome-wide two-sample bayesian

• S3RL: Enhancing Spatial Single-Cell Transcriptomics With Separable Representation Learning.

  PMID 41556263 · PMC13042551 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  S3RL is a separable representation learning framework that denoises sparse spatial transcriptomic data and enhances biologically relevant signals by integrating gene expression, spatial coordinates, and histological image features.

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• Sex-Based Differences in Cell Types and Gene Expression within the Anterior Cruciate Ligament.

  PMID 41587266 · PMC13011956 · The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  ACL tissue is heterogeneous, containing 5 major cell types: fibroblasts, pericytes, endothelial cells, macrophages, and T cells.

  acl differentially study flow single-cell immunofluorescence

• 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

  biobank surgically gwas transformed genome-wide sequencing gene-based

• Trans-ethnic association study of blood pressure determinants in over 750,000 individuals.

  PMID 30578418 · PMC6365102 · Nature genetics · 2019 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  208 novel common blood pressure SNPs and 53 rare variants were discovered in GWASs of SBP, DBP and pulse pressure in up to 776,078 participants from MVP and collaborating studies.

  multi-ethnic mvp tissues kidney genome-wide exome transcriptome-wide

• Deconvolution of the hematopoietic stem cell microenvironment reveals a high degree of specialization and conservation.

  PMID 35494238 · PMC9046238 · iScience · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Integration of three scRNA-seq datasets using a custom bootstrapping-based clustering pipeline robustly identifies 14 endothelial subclusters and 11 mesenchymal (stage-specific) subclusters in mouse bone marrow.

  bone independent scrna-seq gene singler

• Genetics and environment distinctively shape the human immune cell epigenome.

  PMID 41593234 · PMC12900638 · Nature genetics · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Exposure-associated differentially methylated regions (eDMRs) and genotype-associated DMRs (gDMRs) show distinct genomic distributions: eDMRs are enriched at enhancers/regulatory regions, while gDMRs are predominantly found in gene bodies.

  pbmcs pbmc edmrs differentially single-nucleus fluorescence-activated motif

• Multi-modal skin atlas identifies a multicellular immune-stromal community associated with disrupted cornification and specific T cell expansion in atopic dermatitis.

  PMID 41741455 · PMC13057205 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Generated a multi-modal single-cell atlas of 280,518 cells from 27 samples/17 adults (healthy, AD non-lesional/lesional, scleroderma), integrated with 430,186 cells from four prior studies into a 710,704-cell human skin atlas with 86 annotated granular cell subsets.

  skin healthy keratinocytes re-annotated droplet-based scrna-seq bulk

• Single-nucleus multiomic profiling of the aging mouse substantia nigra reveals conserved gene alterations linked to Parkinson's disease.

  PMID 41781332 · PMC13138337 · Genome research · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Single-nucleus multiome (RNA+ATAC) sequencing of mouse substantia nigra across four age stages (2, 6, 12, 18 months) yields a 40,125-cell atlas spanning 27 cell subclasses

  substantia allen five oligodendrocyte single-nucleus scrna-seq single-cell

• 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

• BioGPS: an extensible and customizable portal for querying and organizing gene annotation resources.

  PMID 19919682 · PMC3091323 · Genome biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  BioGPS aggregates distributed, third-party gene annotation resources into a single customizable portal for human, mouse, and rat genes.

  biogps diverse tissues specified web reference exon