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).

• Covalent binding of thioredoxin to TXNIP is required for diet-induced insulin resistance in the liver.

  PMID 40345590 · PMC12180993 · The Journal of biological chemistry · 2025 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  TXNIP Cysteine 247 is required for high-fat diet-induced hepatic and whole-body insulin resistance in mice

  txnip plasma 8-week liver insulin lipidomics hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic

• FoxO transcription factors are required for hepatic HDL cholesterol clearance.

  PMID 29408809 · PMC5873864 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2018 · 5 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 49

  Mice with liver-specific triple FoxO knockout (L-FoxO1,3,4) have increased HDL cholesterol.

  liver-specific l-foxo1 plasma gene hdl

• Cold-Induced Lipoprotein Clearance in Cyp7b1-Deficient Mice.

  PMID 35478959 · PMC9038073 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 83

  Cyp7b1 deficiency blunts cold-induced hepatic Cyp7b1 upregulation and plasma bile acid synthesis

  liver plasma interscapular bat qrt-pcr western bile

• Topologically inferring pathway activity toward precise cancer classification via integrating genomic and metabolomic data: prostate cancer as a case.

  PMID 26286638 · PMC4541321 · Scientific reports · 2015 · 6 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 76

  DRW-GM integrates gene expression and metabolomic profiles via directed random walk on a global gene–metabolite pathway graph to weight genes by topological importance and infer reproducible pathway activities

  prostate global gene metabolomic computational

• Identification of novel markers for liver fibrosis in HIV/hepatitis C virus coinfected individuals using genomics-based approach.

  PMID 18614866 · PMC2654216 · AIDS (London, England) · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  An 8-marker model combining six serum markers, age, and ART experience predicts liver fibrosis stage with an AUROC of 0.904.

  pbmcs liver serum blood microarray liver serum

• DESE: estimating driver tissues by selective expression of genes associated with complex diseases or traits.

  PMID 31694669 · PMC6836538 · Genome biology · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 56

  DESE is a unified iterative framework that estimates driver tissues of complex diseases/traits from tissue-selective expression of GWAS-associated genes, and outputs prioritized susceptibility genes as a byproduct

  tissues schizophrenia bipolar coronary rna-seq gwas gene

• Novel integrative genomics strategies to identify genes for complex traits.

  PMID 16886998 · PMC2367618 · Animal genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Forward genetics is restricted to genes harboring mutations, systematically missing network genes that causally influence disease without themselves being mutated.

  bxd mice bxh alox5 qtl knockout linkage

• TFEB deficiency attenuates mitochondrial degradation upon brown adipose tissue whitening at thermoneutrality.

  PMID 33516944 · PMC7903014 · Molecular metabolism · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  BAT whitening at thermoneutrality is associated with TFEB-dependent mitochondrial degradation.

  bat subscapular tfeb-bat-ko metabolically qrt-pcr western immunohistochemistry

• Six new loci associated with blood low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol or triglycerides in humans.

  PMID 18193044 · PMC2682493 · Nature genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  GWAS plus targeted replication identified 18 loci reproducibly associated with LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and/or triglycerides, six of which are newly identified

  blood liver fasting genome-wide targeted liver

• Caloric Restriction Reprograms Adipose Tissues in Rhesus Monkeys.

  PMID 41042069 · PMC12686577 · Aging cell · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 66

  At baseline, SAT and VAT transcriptomes are highly similar, with only ~1% of genes (30 genes, adjusted p<0.05) differentially expressed between depots in Controls

  subcutaneous sat rhesus bulk gsea xcell

• Brown fat activation reduces hypercholesterolaemia and protects from atherosclerosis development.

  PMID 25754609 · PMC4366535 · Nature communications · 2015 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  β3-AR agonist-mediated BAT activation reduces plasma triglycerides and cholesterol and protects against atherosclerosis development in APOE*3-Leiden.CETP mice.

  e3l.cetp interscapular liver aortic indirect histology plasma

• Peroxisomal proliferator activated receptor-gamma deficiency in a Canadian kindred with familial partial lipodystrophy type 3 (FPLD3).

  PMID 16412238 · PMC1368963 · BMC medical genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel PPARG nonsense mutation, Y355X, was identified in a mother and daughter with FPLD3-consistent phenotypes and was absent from unaffected relatives and 260 healthy controls

  subjects nih3t3 subject healthy sequencing luciferase western

• Accurate prediction of the functional significance of single nucleotide polymorphisms and mutations in the ABCA1 gene.

  PMID 16429166 · PMC1342637 · PLoS genetics · 2005 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  PANTHER subPSEC scores correctly predicted the functional impact of >94% (16/17) of tested naturally occurring ABCA1 variants

  abca1 stably subpsec cholesterol rt-pcr

• 6th annual meeting of the Complex Trait Consortium.

  PMID 17906895 · PMC2042027 · Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The NIEHS Perlegen/resequencing project has generated over 8.5 million SNPs from 15 inbred mouse strains but shows a high false-negative discovery rate, with an estimated 45 million SNPs actually present.

  inbred recombinant yeast gallstone genome affymetrix microarray

• Genetic Dissection of Tissue-Specific Apolipoprotein E Function for Hypercholesterolemia and Diet-Induced Obesity.

  PMID 26695075 · PMC4687855 · PloS one · 2015 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction

  Hepatocyte apoE is required for normal VLDL production and protects against diet-induced dyslipidemia

  liver plasma pooled real-time western elisa

• Nonclassic congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia: a new disorder of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein with very late presentation and normal male genitalia.

  PMID 16968793 · PMC1865081 · The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Homozygous StAR missense mutations Val187Met and Arg188Cys cause a novel, milder form of lipoid CAH ('non-classic lipoid CAH') presenting at 2-4 years of age rather than in infancy

  blood cos-1 bacteria mitochondria sequencing cell-based recombinant

• Metabolic syndrome: from epidemiology to systems biology.

  PMID 18852695 · PMC2829312 · Nature reviews. Genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MetSyn component traits (obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidaemia, hypertension) exhibit causal interactions and common etiologies rather than being independent conditions

  populations rats adipose four genome-wide linkage gene

• The cold-induced lipokine 12,13-diHOME promotes fatty acid transport into brown adipose tissue.

  PMID 28346411 · PMC5699924 · Nature medicine · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  12,13-diHOME is a cold-induced lipokine that stimulates BAT activity

  plasma bat serum mice lc-ms correlation 18f-fdg

• NK2R control of energy expenditure and feeding to treat metabolic diseases.

  PMID 39537932 · PMC11602716 · Nature · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  NK2R activation is sufficient to suppress appetite centrally and increase energy expenditure peripherally

  european-ancestry brain nk2r greenlandic gwas transcriptome-wide receptor

• Discovery and validation of new molecular targets in treating dyslipidemia: the role of human genetics.

  PMID 20211435 · PMC3328807 · Trends in cardiovascular medicine · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mendelian randomization uses genetic variants as a 'randomized trial of nature' to assess causal relationships between lipid biomarkers and CHD, overcoming confounding and reverse causality limitations of observational epidemiology.

  population myocardial individuals animal genome-wide case-control gene