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).

• The gene guessing game.

  PMID 11025532 · PMC2448377 · Yeast (Chichester, England) · 2000 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Published methods for estimating human gene number diverge widely, from ~30,000 to over 140,000 genes.

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• CpG island methylation status and mutation analysis of the RB1 gene essential promoter region and protein-binding pocket domain in nervous system tumours.

  PMID 12556968 · PMC2376780 · British journal of cancer · 2003 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  RB1 CpG island hypermethylation is a common epigenetic event associated with development of malignant nervous system tumours

  nervous bisulphite-modified same pcr-sscp methylation-specific bisulphite

• Effect of the assignment of ancestral CpG state on the estimation of nucleotide substitution rates in mammals.

  PMID 18826599 · PMC2576242 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  CpG/non-CpG assignment based on presence/absence of a CpG dinucleotide seriously biases substitution rate estimates, overestimating CpG changes and underestimating non-CpG changes.

  randomly real human-chimpanzee simulated simulation comparative

• Inter-individual variation of DNA methylation and its implications for large-scale epigenome mapping.

  PMID 18413340 · PMC2425484 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CpG-rich regions (CpG islands) show low and similar methylation levels across individuals, but the sequential order of the few methylated CpGs among the many unmethylated ones varies randomly between individuals.

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• CpG_MI: a novel approach for identifying functional CpG islands in mammalian genomes.

  PMID 19854943 · PMC2800233 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Functional ('bona fide') CGIs show distinct average/cumulative mutual information (AMI/CMI) distributions of neighboring CpG distances compared to non-functional CGIs and random genome segments

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• Genome-scale approaches to the epigenetics of common human disease.

  PMID 19844740 · PMC3107986 · Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2010 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  DNA methylation is a stable, mitotically heritable epigenetic mark faithfully propagated by DNMT1 acting on hemimethylated DNA during replication

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• Pleiotropic effects of MORC2 derive from its epigenetic signature.

  PMID 40302207 · PMC12782172 · Brain : a journal of neurology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A MORC2-specific DNA methylation episignature exists that is universal across all MORC2-associated phenotypes and conserved across blood and fibroblast tissue

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• Heterogeneous genomic molecular clocks in primates.

  PMID 17029560 · PMC1592237 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Non-CpG site substitutions show clear generation-time dependency, consistent with a replication-error origin

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• Differentiation of core promoter architecture between plants and mammals revealed by LDSS analysis.

  PMID 17855401 · PMC2094075 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  LDSS analysis identifies octamer sequences with localized distribution profiles as promoter constituents, classifiable into groups (REG, TATA, Inr, Kozak, CpG, Y Patch)

  arabidopsis rice promoter cross-species ldss sequence distribution

• Genomic profiling of CpG methylation and allelic specificity using quantitative high-throughput mass spectrometry: critical evaluation and improvements.

  PMID 17855397 · PMC2094090 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A new weighted formula that accounts for the number of methylated CpG sites per fragment removes the bias of the original MassCLEAVE™ formula toward higher apparent methylation in fragments with more CpG sites.

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• Developmental hematopoietic stem cell variation explains clonal hematopoiesis later in life.

  PMID 39592593 · PMC11599844 · Nature communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  Weak selection conferred by HSC variation created before birth can reliably yield clonal hematopoiesis later in life, demonstrated via shared prenatal circulation of monozygotic (MZ) twins.

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• MPromDb: an integrated resource for annotation and visualization of mammalian gene promoters and ChIP-chip experimental data.

  PMID 16381984 · PMC1347458 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  MPromDb is a novel database integrating experimentally supported gene promoters, TSS annotation, cis-regulatory elements, CpG islands, and ChIP-chip data with an integrated visualization interface.

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• Comparative genomic study reveals a transition from TA richness in invertebrates to GC richness in vertebrates at CpG flanking sites: an indication for context-dependent mutagenicity of methylated CpG sites.

  PMID 19329065 · PMC5054122 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Nucleotide preference at CpG flanking sites transitions from 5' T (invertebrates) to 5' A (vertebrates) at the invertebrate-vertebrate boundary

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• Non-imprinted allele-specific DNA methylation on human autosomes.

  PMID 19958531 · PMC2812945 · Genome biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  SNPs within CpG islands are associated with allele-specific DNA methylation differences between alleles.

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• Gbdmr: identifying differentially methylated CpG regions in the human genome via generalized beta regressions.

  PMID 38443825 · PMC10916021 · BMC bioinformatics · 2024 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  gbdmr models DNA methylation levels of CpG sites using a generalized beta distribution instead of assuming normality as in linear-regression-based methods

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• Systematic benchmarking of tools for CpG methylation detection from nanopore sequencing.

  PMID 34103501 · PMC8187371 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Nanopore methylation detection tools exhibit a tradeoff between false positives and false negatives and high dispersion relative to expected per-site methylation frequencies.

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• A method for selectively enriching microbial DNA from contaminating vertebrate host DNA.

  PMID 24204593 · PMC3810253 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  MBD-Fc bound to Protein A paramagnetic beads selectively binds methylated (vertebrate host) DNA, depleting it from mixed samples

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• Quantitative epigenetic co-variation in CpG islands and co-regulation of developmental genes.

  PMID 23999385 · PMC6505400 · Scientific reports · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Four epigenetic modifications (DNA methylation, H3K4me2, H3K4me3, H3K27me3) in mouse CGIs undergo combinatorial variation (co-variation) across ESCs, NPCs and adult brain during neuron differentiation.

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• DNA methylation and mRNA expression of SYN III, a candidate gene for schizophrenia.

  PMID 19102774 · PMC2630979 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Variation in SYN III distal CpG island methylation is not related to schizophrenia in the population sample or in a monozygotic twin pair discordant for schizophrenia

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• Methods for genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation in intestinal tumors.

  PMID 19854208 · PMC2891386 · Mutation research · 2010 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Aberrant DNA methylation, including CpG island hypermethylation of tumor suppressors and genome-wide hypomethylation, is strongly linked to the origin and progression of colorectal cancer.

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