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).

• The Multi-State Epigenetic Pacemaker enables the identification of combinations of factors that influence DNA methylation.

  PMID 39549198 · PMC11979089 · GeroScience · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The MSEPM accurately models site-specific methylation variation driven by several factors simultaneously and predicts factor values from methylation profiles in both simulated and real blood data.

  large simulated blood methylation simulation transcription

• Developmental hematopoietic stem cell variation explains clonal hematopoiesis later in life.

  PMID 39592593 · PMC11599844 · Nature communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 2 setups

  Has reproduction · 90

  Weak selection conferred by stem cell variation created before birth can reliably yield clonal hematopoiesis later in life.

  hscs simulated methylation single-cell

• Pleiotropic effects of MORC2 derive from its epigenetic signature.

  PMID 40302207 · PMC12782172 · Brain : a journal of neurology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction

  A MORC2-specific DNA methylation episignature exists that is universal across all MORC2-associated phenotypes and conserved across blood and fibroblast tissue

  blood fibroblasts fibroblast patient-derived methylation svm phenotype-specific

• 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

• 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 · 5 claims · 6 setups

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  A reduced model combining a selected set of 37 X chromosomal DNAm probes with six best-performing autosomal DNAm probes significantly improved age prediction accuracy (RMSE 2.54 years, MAD 1.89 years).

  blood buffy chromosomal methylation random reduced

• 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

• The role of X-chromosome inactivation in female predisposition to autoimmunity.

  PMID 11056674 · PMC17816 · Arthritis research · 2000 · 6 claims · 2 setups

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  Skewed X-chromosome inactivation in the thymus could lead to inadequate thymic deletion of T cells reactive to X-linked polymorphic self-antigens, predisposing to autoimmunity

  peripheral fluorescent pcr

• 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

• CpG island methylation status and mutation analysis of the RB1 gene essential promoter region and protein-binding pocket domain in nervous system tumours.

  PMID 12556968 · PMC2376780 · British journal of cancer · 2003 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  RB1 CpG island hypermethylation is a common epigenetic event associated with development of malignant nervous system tumours

  nervous bisulphite-modified same pcr-sscp methylation-specific bisulphite

• Coexistence of two different pseudohypoparathyroidism subtypes (Ia and Ib) in the same kindred with independent Gs{alpha} coding mutations and GNAS imprinting defects.

  PMID 19858129 · PMC3030964 · Journal of medical genetics · 2010 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Two unrelated PHP-I families each include at least one patient with a Gsα coding mutation (PHP-Ia) and another with GNAS imprinting defects (PHP-Ib)

  genomic erythrocyte gnas sanger methylation-specific microsatellite

• msPIPE: a pipeline for the analysis and visualization of whole-genome bisulfite sequencing data.

  PMID 36123620 · PMC9487059 · BMC bioinformatics · 2022 · 6 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  msPIPE is a new end-to-end pipeline integrating pre-processing, alignment & methylation calling, and downstream DNA methylation analysis (profiling, HMR, DMR, functional enrichment) with publication-quality figure output for WGBS data

  blood rod sperm old wgbs hypomethylated differential

• 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

• DNA methylation and mRNA expression of SYN III, a candidate gene for schizophrenia.

  PMID 19102774 · PMC2630979 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Variation in SYN III distal CpG island methylation is not related to schizophrenia in the population sample or in a monozygotic twin pair discordant for schizophrenia

  brain blood non-human semi-quantitative sodium bisulfite

• Detecting aberrant DNA methylation in Illumina DNA methylation arrays: a toolbox and recommendations for its use.

  PMID 37218167 · PMC10208159 · Epigenetics · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Probe-specific upper and lower thresholds for flagging aberrant DNA methylation can be derived from a reference database of >2,000 normal and tumour-adjacent normal samples spanning 25 tissue types.

  blood tcga gse40279 most illumina supervised unsupervised

• Microsatellite instability and mismatch repair gene inactivation in sporadic pancreatic and colon tumours.

  PMID 10389971 · PMC2363009 · British journal of cancer · 1999 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  Microsatellite instability is common in sporadic pancreatic cancer but occurs at a uniformly low rate and is not accompanied by hMLH1/hMSH2 alterations, suggesting it does not drive pancreatic tumorigenesis.

  sporadic msi-positive tumour unstable microsatellite denaturing sequencing

• 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

• MRX87 family with Aristaless X dup24bp mutation and implication for polyAlanine expansions.

  PMID 17480217 · PMC1868705 · BMC medical genetics · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The MRX87 disease locus maps to the Xp22-p21 interval, a known hot spot region for mental handicap

  peripheral genomic pcr leukocytes two-point direct pcr

• 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

• Female monozygotic twins discordant for hemophilia A due to nonrandom X-chromosome inactivation.

  PMID 18645989 · PMC5715470 · American journal of hematology · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Monozygotic twin A (severe hemophilia A, FVIII:C <1%) shows complete nonrandom X-inactivation skewed toward the paternal (normal factor VIII) X-chromosome

  peripheral cheek genomic twin factor karyotype microsatellite