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).

• 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

• Inactivation of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase by promoter CpG island hypermethylation in gastric cancers.

  PMID 12085181 · PMC2375420 · British journal of cancer · 2002 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Loss of MGMT expression in gastric carcinomas frequently results from promoter CpG island hypermethylation.

  gastric consecutive snu-620 methylation-specific immunohistochemistry western

• Array-based analysis of genomic DNA methylation patterns of the tumour suppressor gene p16INK4A promoter in colon carcinoma cell lines.

  PMID 15860770 · PMC1087791 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A Geniom One-synthesized oligonucleotide microarray can determine the methylation status of individual CpG dinucleotides in parallel, combining high throughput with single-base resolution

  hct116 p16 genomic methylation-specific combined oligonucleotide

• MMASS: an optimized array-based method for assessing CpG island methylation.

  PMID 17041235 · PMC1635254 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  MMASS-v2 (optimized AciI/HinP1I/HpyCH4IV/HpaII enzyme combination with McrBC digestion) offers improved sensitivity and statistical power for microarray-based CpG island methylation detection compared to MMASS-v1, MMASS-sub and the Nouzova method

  hct116 sssi-methylated hcgi12k methylation spike-in cobra

• High throughput detection of M6P/IGF2R intronic hypermethylation and LOH in ovarian cancer.

  PMID 16432260 · PMC1345698 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A 96-well high-throughput bisulfite modification (HTBM) method was developed and validated against single-sample bisulfite modification (SSBM), producing comparable methylation results even from as little as 3 ng DNA.

  genomic normal advanced bisulfite-treated methylation-specific bisulfite snp

• 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

• Recovery of bisulfite-converted genomic sequences in the methylation-sensitive QPCR.

  PMID 17439964 · PMC1888819 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Bisulfite treatment causes DNA strand breakage (via abasic site formation and beta-elimination) in addition to cytosine deamination.

  genomic synthetic bisulfite-treated cloned methylation-sensitive quantitative gel

• Highly individual methylation patterns of alternative glucocorticoid receptor promoters suggest individualized epigenetic regulatory mechanisms.

  PMID 19004867 · PMC2602793 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Methylation patterns of the five GR promoters activated in PBMCs are highly variable between individuals.

  chromosome genomic pbmc multi-species phylogenetic bisulphite

• 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

• CHD5, a tumor suppressor gene deleted from 1p36.31 in neuroblastomas.

  PMID 18577749 · PMC2483574 · Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  CHD5 promoter is highly methylated in neuroblastoma cell lines with 1p deletion and absent CHD5 expression (NLF, IMR5)

  neuroblastoma nlf athymic methylation-specific quantitative soft

• 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

• Improved precision of epigenetic clock estimates across tissues and its implication for biological ageing.

  PMID 31443728 · PMC6708158 · Genome medicine · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The proportion of variance in chronological age explained by all DNA methylation probes is close to 1, so a near-perfect age predictor is in principle achievable with sufficient training data.

  blood unrelated training lbc1921 methylation reml age

• DNA demethylation is associated with malignant progression of lower-grade gliomas.

  PMID 30760837 · PMC6374451 · Scientific reports · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Nearly half of IDH-mutant glioblastomas that progressed from lower-grade gliomas show characteristic partial DNA demethylation in previously methylated (G-CIMP) genomic regions of their initial tumor.

  gliomas neural analysis tcga methylation whole-exome sequencing

• Hierarchical classification-based pan-cancer methylation analysis to classify primary cancer.

  PMID 38066424 · PMC10709847 · BMC bioinformatics · 2023 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CHCT, a hierarchical classification tool, splits classification of 30 cancer types into ten smaller subproblems using a two-tier architecture to classify primary cancer by methylation profile

  cancer clinical training independent methylation upgma random

• High DNA methylation age deceleration defines an aggressive phenotype with immunoexclusion environments in endometrial carcinoma.

  PMID 37388735 · PMC10303802 · Frontiers in immunology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Almost 90% of TCGA EC tumors exhibit DNA methylation age deceleration (DNAmad) relative to patient chronological age as assessed by the Horvath clock

  tumors metastatic methylation bulk kegg

• 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

• Improved epigenetic age prediction models by combining sex chromosome and autosomal markers.

  PMID 40665390 · PMC12261677 · Epigenetics & chromatin · 2025 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Combining sex chromosomal DNAm markers with autosomal age-informative markers can produce a high-accuracy age prediction model competitive with autosomal-only models

  blood buffy methylation random spearman

• 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

• 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

• DNA Methylation Directs Polycomb-Dependent 3D Genome Re-organization in Naive Pluripotency.

  PMID 31722211 · PMC6856714 · Cell reports · 2019 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  The altered 3D genome of 2i-cultured ESCs (chromatin decompaction and loss of polycomb interactions at polycomb targets) is due to redistribution of polycomb away from its targets.

  ring1b− e3.5 e14 3b3l fluorescence fish situ