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).

• 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

• Endothelial Adgrl2 Expression and Alternative Splicing Controls the Cerebrovasculature.

  PMID 41876233 · PMC13108381 · The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Endothelial cell-specific deletion of Adgrl2 impairs cerebrovascular integrity in mice

  wild-type cortex brain single-molecule single-cell immunohistochemistry

• Cell-Type-Specific Gene Modules Related to the Regional Homogeneity of Spontaneous Brain Activity and Their Associations With Common Brain Disorders.

  PMID 33958982 · PMC8093778 · Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Fourteen gene modules were consistently (Bonferroni-corrected) associated with ReHo across a discovery sample and two independent replication samples (including one non-Chinese HCP cohort).

  healthy postmortem ahba neocortex resting-state microarray weighted

• Cell type- and species-specific regulation of hepatic lncRNAs by TCDD-activated aryl hydrocarbon receptor.

  PMID 41136526 · PMC12552753 · Scientific reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  AHR-mediated lncRNA dysregulation may be a contributing mechanism in TCDD-elicited progression of steatosis to steatohepatitis with fibrosis

  liver mm39 bulk single-nuclei ahr

• Digital sorting of complex tissues for cell type-specific gene expression profiles.

  PMID 23497278 · PMC3626856 · BMC bioinformatics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Digital Sorting Algorithm (DSA) deconvolves mixed tissue expression into cell type-specific profiles using only marker genes, without requiring prior knowledge of cell type frequencies or in vitro pure-cell profiles.

  liver im-9 immune deconvolved microarray simulation roc

• Cell-type- and chromosome-specific chromatin landscapes and DNA replication programs of Drosophila testis tumor stem cell-like cells.

  PMID 41371963 · PMC12758400 · Genome research · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  GSC-like and CySC-like cells isolated from upd tumor testes are transcriptionally comparable to wild-type GSC/early-spermatogonia and CySC clusters, respectively

  upd gsc-like wild-type scrna-seq differential gene

• A reference profile-free deconvolution method to infer cancer cell-intrinsic subtypes and tumor-type-specific stromal profiles.

  PMID 32111252 · PMC7049190 · Genome medicine · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DeClust is a reference-profile-free deconvolution method that incorporates molecular subtyping directly into the deconvolution process, outputting cohort-level cancer subtype and stromal reference profiles rather than per-individual profiles

  tcga simulated muscle-invasive ccrcc computational simulation-based deconvolution

• Mouse placentae generated by in vitro fertilization exhibit altered gene expression, activated hypoxia responses, and reduced fitness†.

  PMID 40874534 · PMC12808545 · Biology of reproduction · 2026 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  IVF-conceived mouse placentae exhibit global and cell type–specific gene expression differences compared to FB placentae

  e12.5 differentially trophoblast placenta single-nucleus pseudobulk pathway

• 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

• Single-cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility profiling elucidate the kidney-protective mechanism of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists.

  PMID 37906287 · PMC10760974 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mineralocorticoid effects are established through open chromatin and target gene expression primarily in principal and connecting tubule cells, and to a lesser extent in distal convoluted tubule cells

  kidney live blood snrna-seq snatac-seq bulk

• FEM: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 34909283 · PMC8641482 · PeerJ · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The FEM algorithm converts a single-cell gene expression matrix into a functional expression matrix using multi-module gene set enrichment analysis, utilizing information from all expressed genes rather than discarding filtered genes.

  pbmc pancreas liver scrna-seq single-cell fisher's dimensionality

• HArmonized single-cell RNA-seq Cell type Assisted Deconvolution (HASCAD).

  PMID 37907883 · PMC10619225 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Removal of batch effects in reference scRNA-seq datasets (via Harmony-Symphony) benefits the task of cell composition deconvolution

  pbmc derived tcga-lihc scrna-seq simulated bulk

• Estimating and Correcting for Off-Target Cellular Contamination in Brain Cell Type Specific RNA-Seq Data.

  PMID 33746712 · PMC7966716 · Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  sctRNA-seq datasets (particularly LCM-seq) show measurable off-target mRNA contamination from surrounding cell types

  brain neocortex cortex allen lcm-seq scrna-seq marker

• Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes.

  PMID 40379625 · PMC12084633 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Pan-neuronal genes (expressed in many/all neurons) harbor highly cell-specific splice variants/isoforms restricted to single or few neuron types.

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• EpiXFormer: a cross-attention neural network for predicting cell type-specific transcription factor binding sites.

  PMID 41527854 · PMC12796812 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EpiXFormer achieves high accuracy (mean AUROC ~0.99) predicting binding sites of both TFs and non-sequence-specific DBPs across 199 DBP-cell type pairs

  dbps tfs common ctcf deep comparative feature-ablation

• iBRIDGE: A Data Integration Method to Identify Inflamed Tumors from Single-cell RNA-Seq Data and Differentiate Cell Type-Specific Markers of Immune-Cell Infiltration.

  PMID 37023414 · PMC10236149 · Cancer immunology research · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Malignant cells cluster by patient in scRNA-seq data while immune and stromal cells cluster by cell type, making malignant cells uniquely suited to carry patient-level inflamed/cold signal

  nsclc coad brca tcga scrna-seq bulk rna-seq

• Lipopolysaccharide distinctively alters human microglia transcriptomes to resemble microglia from Alzheimer's disease mouse models.

  PMID 36254682 · PMC9612871 · Disease models & mechanisms · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  iPSC-microglia show a shared core transcriptional response to ATPγS and to LPS+IFN-γ, suggesting a convergent mechanism of action

  ipsc-derived products microglia post-mortem single-cell ca2+ protein-protein

• Single-cell multiome and enhancer connectome of human retinal pigment epithelium and choroid nominate causal variants in macular degeneration.

  PMID 41528844 · PMC12971065 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Generated a single-cell gene expression and chromatin accessibility (multiome) atlas of human RPE and choroid from control and AMD eyes

  rpe-choroid rpe arpe-19 scatac-seq joint h3k27ac activity-by-contact

• Differential neuronal survival defines a novel axis of sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila brain.

  PMID 41529688 · PMC7618834 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Sex differences in the Drosophila central brain do not result from large-scale transcriptional reprogramming, but from selective modifications within shared developmental lineages mediated by dsx and fru.

  drosophila central dsx+ dsx-gal4>mcd8 single-cell differential scenic

• Differentiation in the human urothelia is defined by distinct alternative polyadenylation.

  PMID 41533515 · PMC12937501 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  APA introduces a major layer of transcriptomic diversity during urothelial differentiation, largely independent of changes in mRNA levels

  urothelial urothelial-specific ureter hek293t single-cell poly fluorescence