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).

• Machine learning-based identification of an immunotherapy-related signature to enhance outcomes and immunotherapy responses in melanoma.

  PMID 39355255 · PMC11442245 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  66 consensus immunotherapy prognostic genes (CITPGs) were identified from the intersection of WGCNA modules, immunotherapy responder-vs-non-responder DEGs, and tumor-vs-normal DEGs

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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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  Oncogenes MITF, KIT, CDH1, NRAS, AKT1, EGFR, TP53, and CDK4 are elevated while tumor suppressors PTEN, cAMP, and BCL2 are reduced in melanoma

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

  PMID 34654806 · PMC8519947 · Nature communications · 2021 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  A pathway-based super signature from on-treatment samples (PASS-ON) predicts anti-PD1 response with high accuracy (validation AUC 0.85-0.89, combined AUC 0.88) and outperforms existing signatures across all four datasets.

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• 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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• Differentiation status determines the effects of IFNγ on the expression of PD-L1 and immunomodulatory genes in melanoma.

  PMID 39736644 · PMC11687009 · Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Dedifferentiation via MITF knockdown renders 624Mel melanoma cells hypersensitive to IFNγ, producing non-additive (synergistic) upregulation of IFNγ-induced genes.

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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.

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• Towards precise classification of cancers based on robust gene functional expression profiles.

  PMID 15774002 · PMC1274255 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Functional expression profiles (FEPs) achieve comparable or better classification performance than conventional gene expression profiles (GEPs) across four public microarray datasets

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• A comprehensive catalogue of somatic mutations from a human cancer genome.

  PMID 20016485 · PMC3145108 · Nature · 2010 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Whole-genome sequencing of COLO-829 melanoma cells and matched COLO-829BL normal cells produced the first comprehensive catalogue of somatic mutations from an individual cancer genome

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• Predicting preferential DNA vector insertion sites: implications for functional genomics and gene therapy.

  PMID 18047689 · PMC2106846 · Genome biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Vector insertion site preferences differ substantially between viral vectors and transposons, affecting both oncogenic risk in gene therapy and utility for functional genomics

  hela liver gene peripheral retroviral transposon hydrodynamic

• Oncogenic mutations in GNAQ occur early in uveal melanoma.

  PMID 18719078 · PMC2634606 · Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Activating GNAQ mutations at codon 209 occur in 33/67 (49%) of primary uveal melanomas, making it the most common known oncogenic mutation in UM

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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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  Proportions of activated and proliferating CD8+ T cells (cluster C16/activated EM) are significantly higher in responders before and during therapy

  pbmc cd3+cd8+ pbmc-derived metastatic high-dimensional single-cell polychromatic

• Wx: a neural network-based feature selection algorithm for transcriptomic data.

  PMID 31324856 · PMC6642261 · Scientific reports · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Wx algorithm ranks genes using a DI score reflecting each gene's classification power for distinguishing two groups.

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• SurvConvMixer: robust and interpretable cancer survival prediction based on ConvMixer using pathway-level gene expression images.

  PMID 38539106 · PMC10967213 · BMC bioinformatics · 2024 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  SurvConvMixer, using pathway-level gene expression images and ConvMixer, achieves strong internal validation AUC for overall survival prediction, especially on larger datasets like LUAD

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• A 14-bp motif in the KIT active promoter region is critical for melanin accumulation in yaks, mice, and humans.

  PMID 40629379 · PMC12239316 · BMC biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A 14-bp deletion in the KIT gene promoter region is associated with the all-white phenotype in yaks, identified via GWAS

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• Enhancer Reprogramming Confers Dependence on Glycolysis and IGF Signaling in KMT2D Mutant Melanoma.

  PMID 33086062 · PMC7649750 · Cell reports · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KMT2D is a potent tumor suppressor in melanoma

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• Phased differentiation of γδ T and T CD8 tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes revealed by single-cell transcriptomics of human cancers.

  PMID 34721945 · PMC8555559 · Oncoimmunology · 2021 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  In tumors, TCRVγnon9 γδ T cells (the majority γδ TIL subset) are quantitatively correlated and aligned with T CD8 cells for differentiation, exhaustion, gene expression profile, and response to immune checkpoint therapy

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• TFAP2 paralogs facilitate chromatin access for MITF at pigmentation and cell proliferation genes.

  PMID 35580127 · PMC9159589 · PLoS genetics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pigmentation genes are only expressed in mitfa-expressing zebrafish melanocyte-lineage cells that also express tfap2 paralogs

  gfp+ sk-mel-28 tfap2a single-cell crispr atac-seq

• Analysis of Tumor-Infiltrating T-Cell Transcriptomes Reveal a Unique Genetic Signature across Different Types of Cancer.

  PMID 36232369 · PMC9569723 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Common genes shared across five cancer types differ from those found in nonmalignant tissue-resident T-cells for each subset (CD4-T, CD8-T, Treg)

  breast lung colorectal melanoma single-cell gene reactome

• Stemming cancer: functional genomics of cancer stem cells in solid tumors.

  PMID 18561035 · PMC2758383 · Stem cell reviews · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cancer stem cells are a minority tumor subpopulation that alone can maintain indefinite tumor growth, as shown by serial transplantation experiments

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