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).

• Constraints to gene flow increase the risk of genome erosion in the Ngorongoro Crater lion population.

  PMID 40258987 · PMC12012037 · Communications biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  200 years of quasi-isolation and the 1962 epizootic caused a two-fold increase in inbreeding and an excess of highly deleterious mutations in Crater lions relative to other Greater Serengeti populations

  african lion crater simulated genome principal admixture

• Population history and natural selection shape patterns of genetic variation in 132 genes.

  PMID 15361935 · PMC515367 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Developed a rigorous computational approach that corrects for multiple hypothesis testing and models population demographic history to test for natural selection

  genomic empirical snps chromosome comprehensive coalescent fst

• Accelerated evolution of the ASPM gene controlling brain size begins prior to human brain expansion.

  PMID 15045028 · PMC374243 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The ASPM gene shows accelerated (positively selected) evolution in the African hominoid clade, and this acceleration precedes hominid brain expansion by several million years.

  chimpanzee retrofitted primate aspm tar restriction genomic

• Genomic and proteomic profiling I: leiomyomas in African Americans and Caucasians.

  PMID 17716379 · PMC2063502 · Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E · 2007 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  268 genes (177 over-expressed, 91 under-expressed) are differentially expressed in leiomyomas of African Americans compared to Caucasians (P<0.01, 2-fold cutoff)

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• mtDNA G10398A variant in African-American women with breast cancer provides resistance to apoptosis and promotes metastasis in mice.

  PMID 19763141 · PMC2909846 · Journal of human genetics · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The G10398A cybrid shows slower proliferation and delayed cell cycle progression (G1 accumulation, decreased G2/M) compared to wild-type G10398 cybrid

  blood mitochondria g10398a cybrid pcr cybrid spectrophotometric

• SNPAnalyzer: a web-based integrated workbench for single-nucleotide polymorphism analysis.

  PMID 15980517 · PMC1160189 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  SNPAnalyzer is an integrated web-based workbench that performs four statistical SNP analyses (Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, haplotype estimation, linkage disequilibrium, and QTL analysis) in one common computational environment.

  african simulated hardy-weinberg haplotype linkage

• Information-theoretic identification of predictive SNPs and supervised visualization of genome-wide association studies.

  PMID 16899448 · PMC1557808 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  3D VizStruct (DFT-based radial mapping + KLD as z-axis) can identify SNPs/polymorphic markers that are predictive of underlying biological class distinctions across diverse datasets

  lpl y-chromosome coral simulated snp aflp numerical

• AI-assisted discovery of an ethnicity-influenced driver of cell transformation in esophageal and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinomas.

  PMID 36134663 · PMC9675486 · JCI insight · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  An AI-guided Boolean network approach (BoNE) models transcriptomic continuum states of normal esophagus, BE, and EAC to derive classifier gene signatures

  gene keratinocyte-derived ffpe spt6-depleted boolean rna-seq immunohistochemistry

• A potentially deleterious new CYP2C9 polymorphism identified in an African American patient with major hemorrhage on warfarin therapy.

  PMID 19083245 · PMC2662477 · Blood cells, molecules & diseases · 2009 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  A new CYP2C9 coding polymorphism, G1078A (D360N) in exon 7, was identified in an African American patient who experienced major gastrointestinal hemorrhage on warfarin therapy

  african index cyp2c9 study pyrosequencing pcr custom

• Variants in the estrogen receptor alpha gene and its mRNA contribute to risk for schizophrenia.

  PMID 18424448 · PMC2465798 · Human molecular genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Genotype CC (rs2234693/PvuII) and C-allele-containing haplotypes in ESR1 intron 1 are more frequent in African American schizophrenics than controls

  genomic postmortem nimhgi esr1 targeted case-control family-based

• Relation of candidate genes that encode for endothelial function to migraine and stroke: the Stroke Prevention in Young Women study.

  PMID 19661472 · PMC2753702 · Stroke · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  EDN SNP rs1800542 is associated with increased ischemic stroke risk in Caucasian women

  international spyw candidate haplotype population

• Social and ethical implications of genomics, race, ethnicity, and health inequities.

  PMID 19000599 · PMC2892396 · Seminars in oncology nursing · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Race and ethnicity are increasingly viewed as genetic surrogates for predicting disease risk and treatment response, though directly assessing genomic and environmental factors is more accurate.

  population prostate non-small-cell breast genome-wide gene somatic

• Gene module regulation in dilated cardiomyopathy and the role of Na/K-ATPase.

  PMID 35901050 · PMC9333241 · PloS one · 2022 · 5 claims · 8 setups

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  Several co-expressed gene modules are significantly associated with left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) and the DCM phenotype, enriched in fibrosis-related, small molecule transporting-related, and immune response-related pathways.

  heart degs gene rna-seq bulk differential gene

• nf-rnaSeqCount: A Nextflow pipeline for obtaining raw read counts from RNA-seq data.

  PMID 35574063 · PMC9097006 · South African computer journal = Suid-Afrikaanse rekenaartydskrif · 2021 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  nf-rnaSeqCount is a portable, reproducible Nextflow pipeline that maps RNA-seq reads to a reference genome and quantifies gene abundance for differential expression analysis

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• Functional nsSNPs from carcinogenesis-related genes expressed in breast tissue: potential breast cancer risk alleles and their distribution across human populations.

  PMID 16595073 · PMC3500178 · Human genomics · 2006 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A bioinformatics strategy cross-referencing carcinogenesis-related gene lists with breast-tissue expression data can identify candidate breast cancer risk nsSNPs.

  breast carcinogenesis-related nssnp-containing african gene snp functional

• Comparative genomic analysis of clinical strains of Campylobacter jejuni from South Africa.

  PMID 18431496 · PMC2292242 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  South African HS:41 strains are clearly distinct from the other South African strains by comparative genomic analysis

  clinical genomic jejuni multilocus microarray phylogenetic

• Aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator (ARNT) gene as a positional and functional candidate for type 2 diabetes and prediabetic intermediate traits: Mutation detection, case-control studies, and gene expression analysis.

  PMID 18366646 · PMC2323364 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Common ARNT variants are not associated with type 2 diabetes in European American or African American case-control cohorts

  european african individuals nondiabetic snp variant direct

• Genetic determinants of virulence in pathogenic lineage 2 West Nile virus strains.

  PMID 18258114 · PMC2600181 · Emerging infectious diseases · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The nonstructural genes, especially NS5, are the most variable regions between highly and less neuroinvasive lineage 2 WNV strains

  lineage mice patients complete phylogenetic nucleotide

• A genome-wide approach to identify genetic loci with a signature of natural selection in the Irish population.

  PMID 16904005 · PMC1779589 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Eight SNPs with extreme European-branch locus-specific branch length (LSBL) were selected from a genome-wide FST dataset as candidates for selection in Europe.

  snp irish french fst-based microsatellite genome-wide

• Gene losses during human origins.

  PMID 16464126 · PMC1361800 · PLoS biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A comparative genomic screen identified 67 new human-specific nonprocessed pseudogenes, bringing the total (with 13 from prior literature) to 80 human-specific pseudogenes.

  pseudogene chimpanzee human-specific population comparative phylogenetic fisher's