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).

• 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

  blood fibroblasts fibroblast patient-derived methylation svm phenotype-specific

• 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.

  blood simulated fluctuating single-cell

• 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

• Lymphocytes from patients with type 1 diabetes display a distinct profile of chromatin histone H3 lysine 9 dimethylation: an epigenetic study in diabetes.

  PMID 18776137 · PMC2584123 · Diabetes · 2008 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Lymphocytes (but not monocytes) from type 1 diabetic patients show a distinct subset of genes with significantly increased H3K9me2 compared with healthy controls.

  blood pooled gene chip-chip conventional quantitative

• ResnetAge: A Resnet-Based DNA Methylation Age Prediction Method.

  PMID 38247911 · PMC10813502 · Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  ResnetAge, a ResNet-based neural network using 22,278 shared Illumina 27K/450K CpG sites, predicts DNA methylation age from beta values.

  shared independent methylation resnet comparative

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

  PMID 33937763 · PMC8061458 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Approximately two-thirds of compiled HM450K samples are from blood, one-quarter from brain, and roughly one-third from cancer patients.

  hm450k seven annotated illumina beadarray model-based

• Investigating epigenetic biomarkers of age, sex, and disease in captive South African cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus).

  PMID 41528985 · PMC12798976 · PloS one · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A cheetah-specific epigenetic age clock using 52 CpG sites predicts chronological age across blood and liver with r=0.97 and MAE=0.86 years

  cheetah lion genes methylation epigenome-wide differential

• 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.

  inhbb cloned same fresh-frozen rnase masscleave clonal

• Methylation of class II transactivator gene promoter IV is not associated with susceptibility to multiple sclerosis.

  PMID 18606010 · PMC2464579 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Methylation of the MHC2TA promoter pIV is not associated with MS susceptibility; no methylation was detected in any twin sample regardless of disease status

  peripheral mhc2ta pcr sanger bisulfite cpg

• Improved epigenetic age prediction models by combining sex chromosome and autosomal markers.

  PMID 40665390 · PMC12261677 · Epigenetics & chromatin · 2025 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Combining sex chromosomal DNAm markers with autosomal age-informative markers can produce a high-accuracy age prediction model competitive with autosomal-only models

  blood buffy methylation random spearman

• msPIPE: a pipeline for the analysis and visualization of whole-genome bisulfite sequencing data.

  PMID 36123620 · PMC9487059 · BMC bioinformatics · 2022 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  msPIPE is a new end-to-end pipeline integrating pre-processing, alignment & methylation calling, and downstream DNA methylation analysis (profiling, HMR, DMR, functional enrichment) with publication-quality figure output for WGBS data

  blood rod sperm old wgbs hypomethylated differential

• MMASS: an optimized array-based method for assessing CpG island methylation.

  PMID 17041235 · PMC1635254 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  MMASS-v2 (optimized AciI/HinP1I/HpyCH4IV/HpaII enzyme combination with McrBC digestion) offers improved sensitivity and statistical power for microarray-based CpG island methylation detection compared to MMASS-v1, MMASS-sub and the Nouzova method

  hct116 sssi-methylated hcgi12k methylation spike-in cobra

• MRX87 family with Aristaless X dup24bp mutation and implication for polyAlanine expansions.

  PMID 17480217 · PMC1868705 · BMC medical genetics · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The MRX87 disease locus maps to the Xp22-p21 interval, a known hot spot region for mental handicap

  peripheral genomic pcr leukocytes two-point direct pcr

• 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

  brain blood non-human semi-quantitative sodium bisulfite

• Improved precision of epigenetic clock estimates across tissues and its implication for biological ageing.

  PMID 31443728 · PMC6708158 · Genome medicine · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The proportion of variance in chronological age explained by all DNA methylation probes is close to 1, so a near-perfect age predictor is in principle achievable with sufficient training data.

  blood unrelated training lbc1921 methylation reml age

• 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

  3h-labeled imr-90 lambda saliva scintillation genome restriction

• pwrEWAS: a user-friendly tool for comprehensive power estimation for epigenome wide association studies (EWAS).

  PMID 31035919 · PMC6489300 · BMC bioinformatics · 2019 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  pwrEWAS is a user-friendly tool (R package and Shiny web interface) for comprehensive power estimation in two-group EWAS using Illumina HumanMethylation BeadChip technology.

  saliva blood cord-blood pbmc illumina simulation

• Loss of heterozygosity at 2q37 in sporadic Wilms' tumor: putative role for miR-562.

  PMID 19789318 · PMC2756455 · Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  2q37 harbors a tumor suppressor gene important in Wilms tumor pathogenesis

  sporadic wilms fetal 293t loh multiplex genome-wide

• Application of OMICS technologies in occupational and environmental health research; current status and projections.

  PMID 19933307 · PMC2910417 · Occupational and environmental medicine · 2010 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Five OMICS technologies are well established: genotyping, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics, and metabolomics

  population genomic blood genome array-based comparative gene

• Highly individual methylation patterns of alternative glucocorticoid receptor promoters suggest individualized epigenetic regulatory mechanisms.

  PMID 19004867 · PMC2602793 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Methylation patterns of the five GR promoters activated in PBMCs are highly variable between individuals.

  chromosome genomic pbmc multi-species phylogenetic bisulphite