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).

• 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

  genome random cd4+ six average mutual chip-seq

• Microarray-based DNA methylation profiling: technology and applications.

  PMID 16428248 · PMC1345696 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A microarray-based method enriching unmethylated and methylated DNA fractions via methylation-sensitive restriction enzymes followed by hybridization enables high-throughput DNA methylation profiling of large genomic regions.

  genomic postmortem ligated custom cpg tiling

• 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

• 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

  baboon chimpanzee same human-chimpanzee relative phylogenetic four-species

• 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.

  genomic ests tetraodon genome cpg est comparative

• 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.

  leukocytes leukocyte hek293 bisulfite methylation-sensitive cdna

• 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

  genomes same pufferfish elegans nucleotide genome-wide kruskal-wallis

• High throughput detection of M6P/IGF2R intronic hypermethylation and LOH in ovarian cancer.

  PMID 16432260 · PMC1345698 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A 96-well high-throughput bisulfite modification (HTBM) method was developed and validated against single-sample bisulfite modification (SSBM), producing comparable methylation results even from as little as 3 ng DNA.

  genomic normal advanced bisulfite-treated methylation-specific bisulfite snp

• 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

• Genomic approaches to the genetics of alcoholism.

  PMID 12875046 · PMC6683845 · Alcohol research & health : the journal of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism · 2002 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Alcoholism is a complex disease that develops from a combination of numerous genetic and environmental factors, unlike single-gene disorders such as cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease.

  specified genomic gene genomic exon

• miRGen: a database for the study of animal microRNA genomic organization and function.

  PMID 17108354 · PMC1669779 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  miRGen is an integrated database combining Genomics, Targets, and Clusters interfaces to study miRNA genomic organization and function across 11 animal genomes

  animal genome mouse-human mirna genomic mirna cross-species

• Strand bias in complementary single-nucleotide polymorphisms of transcribed human sequences: evidence for functional effects of synonymous polymorphisms.

  PMID 16916449 · PMC1559705 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Genome-wide, both intronic SNPs (iSNPs) and FFD SNPs show a significant excess of A→G over complementary T→C substitutions, confirming prior transcription-coupled repair (TCR) findings from a single chromosome 7 region.

  autosomal intronic chimpanzee genes comparative human-chimpanzee background

• Genomic divergences among cattle, dog and human estimated from large-scale alignments of genomic sequences.

  PMID 16759380 · PMC1525190 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Overall pairwise genomic divergences among cattle, dog and human are relatively constant (0.32–0.37 change/site)

  orthologous random cattle aligned three-way pairwise bac

• 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

• 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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• Speeding disease gene discovery by sequence based candidate prioritization.

  PMID 15766383 · PMC1274252 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Disease genes (OMIM) differ significantly from non-disease genes in sequence-based features including gene/cDNA/protein size, exon number, homolog conservation, secretion signal, 3' UTR length, CpG islands, and distance to nearest gene.

  ensembl training same hgmd comparative machine tenfold

• Bias of selection on human copy-number variants.

  PMID 16482228 · PMC1366494 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Human CNVs are significantly overrepresented near telomeres and centromeres and enriched in simple tandem repeats relative to the genome as a whole

  genome human-mouse cnv-encompassed inbred comparative randomization molecular

• 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.

  chip-chip sequence genbank

• In silico comparative genomic analysis of GABAA receptor transcriptional regulation.

  PMID 17603907 · PMC1934366 · BMC genomics · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Previously unreported putative promoters were identified for the β2, γ1, γ3, ε, θ and π GABA A receptor subunit genes

  subunit mammalian α1-β2-γ2-α6 cross-species promoter transcription

• DNA methylation analysis by digital bisulfite genomic sequencing and digital MethyLight.

  PMID 18628296 · PMC2504308 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Digital PCR compartmentalizes individual bisulfite-converted DNA template molecules into separate wells, enabling single-molecule DNA methylation analysis

  fresh-frozen same sssi-methylated mixture digital conventional classic