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).

• Quantitative epigenetic co-variation in CpG islands and co-regulation of developmental genes.

  PMID 23999385 · PMC6505400 · Scientific reports · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Four epigenetic modifications (DNA methylation, H3K4me2, H3K4me3, H3K27me3) in mouse CGIs undergo combinatorial variation (co-variation) across ESCs, NPCs and adult brain during neuron differentiation.

  embryonic escs dem-cgis demg methylation chip-seq gene

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

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

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  A near-perfect chronological age predictor can in principle be developed from DNA methylation when training sample size is sufficiently large.

  blood unrelated sgpd lbc1921 methylation reml permutation

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

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

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  CHCT, a two-tier hierarchical classification tool built from methylation data, accurately classifies primary cancer type across 30 cancer types.

  tumor clinical methylation clustered methylation unsupervised anova

• 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.

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• Inter-individual variation of DNA methylation and its implications for large-scale epigenome mapping.

  PMID 18413340 · PMC2425484 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CpG-rich regions (CpG islands) show low and similar methylation levels across individuals, but the sequential order of the few methylated CpGs among the many unmethylated ones varies randomly between individuals.

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• 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

• DNA methylation of cancer genome.

  PMID 19960550 · PMC2940836 · Birth defects research. Part C, Embryo today : reviews · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Cancer epigenome alterations fall into two main categories: hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes and hypomethylation of oncogenes or heterochromatin.

  embryonic germ heterozygous cancer gene hypomorphic methyltransferase

• DNA methylation profiling of the human major histocompatibility complex: a pilot study for the human epigenome project.

  PMID 15550986 · PMC529316 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  The human MHC methylation profile is strongly bimodal, with the vast majority of analysed regions being either hypo- (≤30%) or hypermethylated (≥70%)

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• 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 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  450K microarray analysis identified 26 overlapping differential methylation sites distinguishing PCNSL from CNS and non-CNS groups

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• 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.

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• Aberration in DNA methylation in B-cell lymphomas has a complex origin and increases with disease severity.

  PMID 23326238 · PMC3542081 · PLoS genetics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas display striking intra-tumor (intra-sample) and inter-patient (inter-sample) cytosine methylation heterogeneity that increases progressively with disease aggressiveness (NBC<NGC<FL<GCB<ABC).

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• Epigenetics and phenotypic variation in mammals.

  PMID 16688527 · PMC3906716 · Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Epigenetic modifications are mitotically heritable, but the fidelity of meiotic/transgenerational inheritance in mammals is poorly understood and evidence in mammals is scanty.

  mammalian mhc chromosomes embryonic methylation high-throughput chip

• DNA methylation analysis by digital bisulfite genomic sequencing and digital MethyLight.

  PMID 18628296 · PMC2504308 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Digital PCR compartmentalizes individual bisulfite-converted DNA template molecules into separate wells, enabling single-molecule DNA methylation analysis

  fresh-frozen same sssi-methylated mixture digital conventional classic

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Bioinformatics Analysis of the Characteristics and Correlation of m6A Methylation in Breast Cancer Progression.

  PMID 35655723 · PMC9148239 · Contrast media & molecular imaging · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Breast cancer samples can be classified into 4 m6A subtypes (quiescent, m6A methylation, protein-binding, mixed) based on Z-score median of Set1 (writer+reader) and Set2 (eraser) gene expression

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• 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 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Differential DNA methylation occurs predominantly in intergenic regions and low methylated regions (LMRs), highlighting the role of distal regulatory elements in COVID-19 severity.

  nasal aggregated genes differentially whole-genome methylation tiling

• Microarray-based DNA methylation profiling: technology and applications.

  PMID 16428248 · PMC1345696 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A microarray-based method enriching unmethylated and methylated DNA fractions via methylation-sensitive restriction enzymes followed by hybridization enables high-throughput DNA methylation profiling of large genomic regions.

  genomic postmortem ligated custom cpg tiling

• Downregulation of death-associated protein kinase 1 (DAPK1) in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

  PMID 17540169 · PMC4647864 · Cell · 2007 · 8 claims · 13 setups

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  DAPK1 promoter is epigenetically silenced by DNA methylation in almost all sporadic CLL cases

  cd19+ leukemia raji jurkat quantitative cobra chromatin