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).

• Advances in genomic and pharmacokinetic profiling for clinical stratification of metastatic breast cancer.

  PMID 41369820 · PMC12799884 · Discover oncology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Eight gene modules linked to metastasis were identified via scored network analysis and validated through pathway databases.

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• FRMD8 inhibits tumor metastasis in BRCA1-associated TNBC by negatively regulating tmTNF-α.

  PMID 40619383 · PMC12229025 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Low FRMD8 expression in BRCA1-mutant breast cancer cells significantly enhances metastatic potential to various organs

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• Application of proteomics in the study of tumor metastasis.

  PMID 15862116 · PMC5172469 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cell function is directly regulated through proteins, not genes or mRNA, so metastasis-related gene findings need protein-level validation via proteomics.

  young metastatic hepatocellular lines microarray 2de cdna

• Molecular and Clinical Relevance of ZBTB38 Expression Levels in Prostate Cancer.

  PMID 32365491 · PMC7281456 · Cancers · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  ZBTB38 expression is decreased in localised prostate cancer and further decreased in metastatic prostate cancer compared to non-cancerous prostate tissue

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• Gene Dosage Analysis on the Single-Cell Transcriptomes Linking Cotranslational Protein Targeting to Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.

  PMID 34577617 · PMC8472593 · Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A computational framework integrating independently measured CNV (DNA sequencing) and single-cell RNA-seq from the same patients identifies recurrent concordant copy number gain and gene upregulation (CNG-UP) events and functional modules at the single-cell level.

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• Differential Gene Expression and Methylation Analysis of Melanoma in TCGA Database to Further Study the Expression Pattern of KYNU in Melanoma.

  PMID 35893303 · PMC9329910 · Journal of personalized medicine · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KYNU expression is decreased in melanoma despite a high KYNU mutation rate in the TCGA database

  tcga-skcm melanoma keratinocytes differential copy methylation

• Pathway signatures derived from on-treatment tumor specimens predict response to anti-PD1 blockade in metastatic melanoma.

  PMID 34654806 · PMC8519947 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Pathway-based signatures derived from on-treatment tumor specimens (PASS-ON) are highly predictive of response to anti-PD1 blockade in metastatic melanoma, achieving validation AUCs of 0.85–0.89.

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• The genomic analysis of lactic acidosis and acidosis response in human cancers.

  PMID 19057672 · PMC2585811 · PLoS genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Lactic acidosis and hypoxia induce largely distinct gene expression programs in HMECs, with lactic acidosis producing a much larger and more dramatic response

  mammary hmec gene breast gene real-time bayesian

• Transcription network construction for large-scale microarray datasets using a high-performance computing approach.

  PMID 18366618 · PMC2386070 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  RMT removes the random noise component of the gene expression correlation matrix by testing its eigenvalue statistics against a null hypothesis derived from a truly random correlation matrix

  yeast liver eight-node microarray k-means hybrid

• A taxonomy of epithelial human cancer and their metastases.

  PMID 20017941 · PMC2806369 · BMC medical genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Unsupervised hierarchical clustering of 1566 primary epithelial tumors yields large tissue-enriched clusters (breast, colon/GI, lung, ovary, kidney) plus smaller prostate, thyroid-kidney, and mixed clusters

  epithelial tumor metastatic breast microarray gene fisher

• Correcting scale distortion in RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 39875825 · PMC11776150 · BMC bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Local averaging reveals expression-level-dependent biases that differ from sample to sample across all RNA-seq datasets studied, and are not corrected by conventional normalization (TPM/FPKM)

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• Single-Cell Transcriptomic Landscape of Right-Sided Colon Cancer Reveals Cellular and Molecular Features of Metastatic Potential.

  PMID 41898210 · PMC13024220 · Biomedicines · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Liver metastatic potential in RCC is marked by stem-like tumor states, metabolic plasticity, and microenvironmental remodeling.

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• Comprehensive analysis of metastatic gastric cancer tumour cells using single-cell RNA-seq.

  PMID 33441952 · PMC7806779 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CDK12, ERBB2, and CLDN11 are overexpressed in metastatic lymph node gastric cancer and serve as candidate lymph node metastasis marker genes.

  tumour gastric qc-passed single-cell immunofluorescence immunohistochemistry

• The diagnosis and management of pre-invasive breast disease: promise of new technologies in understanding pre-invasive breast lesions.

  PMID 14580250 · PMC314415 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2003 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ADH and ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) are precursor lesions molecularly similar to adjacent invasive breast cancer

  locally adh brca1 malignant array chromosome-based cdna

• A modular analysis framework for blood genomics studies: application to systemic lupus erythematosus.

  PMID 18631455 · PMC2727981 · Immunity · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Transcriptional modules constructed from coordinately expressed genes across 8 diseases form stable, biologically coherent functional units

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• Cross species genomic analysis identifies a mouse model as undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma/malignant fibrous histiocytoma.

  PMID 19956606 · PMC2779485 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A 100-gene signature from LSL-KrasG12D;Trp53Flox/Flox mouse sarcomas (vs normal muscle) is specifically and significantly enriched in human MFH but not other soft tissue sarcoma subtypes across three independent human datasets.

  lsl-krasg12d soft combined mfh microarray gene oncogenic

• Indoleamine 2, 3-Dioxygenase 1 and CD8 Expression Profiling Revealed an Immunological Subtype of Colon Cancer With a Poor Prognosis.

  PMID 33425745 · PMC7793995 · Frontiers in oncology · 2020 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  The CD8A-high/IDO1-high colon cancer subtype (group IV*) has the worst survival despite high CD8 infiltrates.

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• Circulating mucosal-associated invariant T cells identify patients responding to anti-PD-1 therapy.

  PMID 33723257 · PMC7961017 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are more abundant in the circulation of metastatic melanoma patients who respond to anti-PD-1 therapy than in non-responders, before and during therapy.

  peripheral cd3+cd8+ pbmc-derived pbmc high-dimensional single-cell flow

• Genetic and epigenetic changes in primary metastatic and nonmetastatic colorectal cancer.

  PMID 16969349 · PMC2360724 · British journal of cancer · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  K-Ras codon 12 mutations are significantly associated with metastatic (M+) CRC

  crc 202-patient pcr-rflp sscp immunohistochemistry

• Extensive androgen receptor enhancer heterogeneity in primary prostate cancers underlies transcriptional diversity and metastatic potential.

  PMID 36450752 · PMC9712620 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  AR enhancer/chromatin binding usage is highly heterogeneous between primary prostate tumors, with <5% of all AR binding sites shared by half of tumors analyzed.

  prostate normal ar+ pca chip-seq rna-seq massively