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).

• Functional epigenomics approach to identify methylated candidate tumour suppressor genes in renal cell carcinoma.

  PMID 18195710 · PMC2361461 · British journal of cancer · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  HAI-2/SPINT2 was previously identified as a novel epigenetically inactivated candidate RCC tumour suppressor gene

  rcc skrc39 gene rt-pcr bisulphite

• Relationship between the extent of chromosomal losses and the pattern of CpG methylation in gastric carcinomas.

  PMID 16224153 · PMC2779276 · Journal of Korean medical science · 2005 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  High-level-loss (LOH-H) tumors show a tendency toward unmethylation in Maspin, CAGE, MAGE-A2, and RABGEF1 genes

  microdissected same bisulfite-modified pcr microsatellite methylation-specific bisulfite

• 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

• 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.

  coli lymphoblastoid na12878 mixture nanopore cas9-targeted whole-genome

• 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.

  cd4+ computational hep direct simulation epigraph

• 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

• The stem cell population of the human colon crypt: analysis via methylation patterns.

  PMID 17335343 · PMC1808490 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  A coalescent-based, full probabilistic model with MCMC Bayesian inference provides a more powerful alternative to prior forward-simulation approaches for analyzing methylation pattern data from crypts.

  colon computational simulated bisulfite coalescent posterior

• Genomic and bioinformatics analysis of human adenovirus type 37: new insights into corneal tropism.

  PMID 18471294 · PMC2397415 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  The complete genome of HAdV-37 was sequenced and annotated (35,213 bp, 56.6% GC content, 35 predicted coding sequences plus 8 hypothetical ORFs)

  hadv-37 predicted select genome cpg global

• 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

• 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

• Bisulfite sequencing of chromatin immunoprecipitated DNA (BisChIP-seq) directly informs methylation status of histone-modified DNA.

  PMID 22466171 · PMC3371705 · Genome research · 2012 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  BisChIP-seq — bisulfite sequencing of chromatin immunoprecipitated DNA — enables direct genome-wide, base-resolution interrogation of DNA methylation on histone-modified DNA molecules

  lncap sonicated adaptor-modified native bischip-seq chromatin chip-qpcr

• 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

• Widely variable endogenous retroviral methylation levels in human placenta.

  PMID 17617638 · PMC1950553 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  Three HERV-E LTRs that function as alternative gene promoters (LTR-PTN, LTR-EBR, LTR-MID1) are unmethylated in placenta but heavily methylated in blood cells, where they are not active promoters

  term placenta genome bisulfite rt-pcr genome-wide

• Identification of the imprinted KLF14 transcription factor undergoing human-specific accelerated evolution.

  PMID 17480121 · PMC1865561 · PLoS genetics · 2007 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  KLF14 is a novel imprinted gene showing monoallelic maternal expression in embryonic and extra-embryonic tissues of both human and mouse

  embryonic fetal monochromosomal fibroblasts allele-specific rt-pcr chromatin

• 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

• 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

• Analysis of the genome of the New Zealand giant collembolan (Holacanthella duospinosa) sheds light on hexapod evolution.

  PMID 29041914 · PMC5644144 · BMC genomics · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A high-quality ~375 Mbp draft genome and transcriptome of Holacanthella duospinosa was assembled and annotated, providing a genomic resource for hexapod evolution.

  holacanthella duospinosa whole-genome transcriptome genome

• Structure of the intergenic spacers in chicken ribosomal DNA.

  PMID 31655542 · PMC6815422 · Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE · 2019 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Long-read PacBio sequencing of a chicken NOR-containing BAC clone resolved three complete IGS sequences plus rRNA gene clusters that are otherwise missing from genome assemblies.

  wag137g04 pacbio gallus_gallus-5.0 chicken long-read novo comparative

• Methylation patterns of the nasal epigenome of hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 positive patients reveal insights into molecular mechanisms of COVID-19.

  PMID 40170038 · PMC11963311 · BMC medical genomics · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The nasal methylome shows differential DNA methylation in intergenic regions and low methylated regions (LMRs), highlighting distal regulatory/enhancer-like elements in COVID-19 gene regulation

  nasal aggregated severe differentially genome methylation differential

• Human epigenome project--up and running.

  PMID 14691553 · PMC300691 · PLoS biology · 2003 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Epigenetic modifications (e.g., DNA methylation) rather than DNA sequence differences explain phenotypic differences between genetically identical individuals, such as monozygotic twins or inbred mice.

  expressed bat8 genetically methylation genome-wide phenotypic