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

• 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

• 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

• 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

  simulated birth gene simulation methylation

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Specific Marker Gene Analysis for Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma Based on Methylation Difference and Development of Detection Primers.

  PMID 41097902 · PMC12528802 · Brain and behavior · 2025 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  RHEB promoter hypermethylation is a PCNSL-specific biomarker distinguishing PCNSL from other CNS diseases.

  datasets cns tcga gdc 450k rrbs roc

• 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

• 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

  autopsy colorectal colon genomic charm quantitative bisulfite

• 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

• Optical mapping discerns genome wide DNA methylation profiles.

  PMID 18667073 · PMC2516518 · BMC molecular biology · 2008 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  Methylated restriction sites can be identified in optical maps as cleavage sites that are absent relative to the in silico (sequence-based) restriction map, since most restriction enzymes fail to cut methylated cognate sequences.

  escherichia embryonic optical

• 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.

  cd19+ lung gpx1 tumor mira medip goldengate

• 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

• DMN-seq enriches DNA hypomethylated regions for biomarker discovery using 5-methylcytosine glycosylase.

  PMID 41673887 · PMC13097799 · Genome biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  DME-mediated nicking enables DMN-seq (DMN+) to detect 5mC at single-base resolution by ligating adaptors only to 5mC-containing fragments generated by DME excision

  synthetic partially embryonic mesc dmn+ ubs-seq dmn–

• 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