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).

• Adverse prognosis of epigenetic inactivation in RUNX3 gene at 1p36 in human pancreatic cancer.

  PMID 18475302 · PMC2391125 · British journal of cancer · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  RUNX3 promoter hypermethylation is frequent in primary pancreatic cancer tissue

  pancreatic microsatellite methylation-specific bisulphite

• 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

• Systematic benchmarking of tools for CpG methylation detection from nanopore sequencing.

  PMID 34103501 · PMC8187371 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Existing Nanopore methylation detection tools present a tradeoff between false positives and false negatives and show high dispersion relative to expected methylation frequency values.

  coli individual lymphoblastoid na12878 nanopore per-read consensus

• 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 clock (CheetahClock) built from 52 CpG sites predicts age across blood and liver samples with r=0.97 and MAE=0.86 years

  cheetah genes methylation elastic epigenome-wide

• Pleiotropic effects of MORC2 derive from its epigenetic signature.

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

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  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

  tcga-skcm melanoma-related intradermal keratinocytes rna-seq kegg copy

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

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

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  Weak selection conferred by HSC variation created before birth can reliably yield clonal hematopoiesis later in life, demonstrated via shared prenatal circulation of monozygotic (MZ) twins.

  blood simulated fluctuating single-cell

• Bisulfite sequencing of chromatin immunoprecipitated DNA (BisChIP-seq) directly informs methylation status of histone-modified DNA.

  PMID 22466171 · PMC3371705 · Genome research · 2012 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  BisChIP-seq — bisulfite sequencing of chromatin immunoprecipitated DNA — enables direct genome-wide, base-resolution interrogation of DNA methylation on histone-modified DNA molecules

  lncap sonicated adaptor-modified native bischip-seq chromatin chip-qpcr

• Array-based profiling of reference-independent methylation status (aPRIMES) identifies frequent promoter methylation and consecutive downregulation of ZIC2 in pediatric medulloblastoma.

  PMID 17344319 · PMC1874664 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  aPRIMES is a novel array-based method that detects direct (absolute) methylation status of CGIs via competitive hybridization of McrBC-digested (methylated) versus HpaII/BstUI-digested (unmethylated) DNA from the same genome, avoiding reference-tissue and copy-number biases

  pediatric tumor eight desmoplastic aprimes bisulfite quantitative

• Aberrations of the p14(ARF) and p16(INK4a) genes in renal cell carcinomas.

  PMID 11749694 · PMC5926680 · Japanese journal of cancer research : Gann · 2001 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Homozygous co-deletion of p14ARF and p16INK4a is frequent in RCC cell lines (5 of 6 lines)

  rcc differential methylation-specific immunohistochemistry

• Pancreatic tumours: molecular pathways implicated in ductal cancer are involved in ampullary but not in exocrine nonductal or endocrine tumorigenesis.

  PMID 11161385 · PMC2363700 · British journal of cancer · 2001 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  PDC shows frequent alterations of K-ras, p53, p16 and DPC4, confirming these as the core molecular fingerprint of ductal cancer

  pancreatic same tumor pet sscp methylation-specific microsatellite

• Relationship between the extent of chromosomal losses and the pattern of CpG methylation in gastric carcinomas.

  PMID 16224153 · PMC2779276 · Journal of Korean medical science · 2005 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  High-level-loss (LOH-H) tumors show a tendency toward unmethylation in Maspin, CAGE, MAGE-A2, and RABGEF1 genes

  microdissected same bisulfite-modified pcr microsatellite methylation-specific bisulfite

• Protocadherin PCDH10, involved in tumor progression, is a frequent and early target of promoter hypermethylation in cervical cancer.

  PMID 19681120 · PMC3430375 · Genes, chromosomes & cancer · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  PCDH10 promoter hypermethylation is a frequent event in invasive cervical cancer

  invasive lines normal cervical snp methylation-specific bisulphite

• 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

• Alterations in candidate genes PHF2, FANCC, PTCH1 and XPA at chromosomal 9q22.3 region: pathological significance in early- and late-onset breast carcinoma.

  PMID 18990233 · PMC2633285 · Molecular cancer · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  PHF2, FANCC and PTCH1 show high frequency of alterations (deletion/methylation) compared to XPA in both early- and late-onset breast carcinoma groups

  invasive breast normal microsatellite methylation sscp

• Establishment and characterisation of six human biliary tract cancer cell lines.

  PMID 12107841 · PMC2376107 · British journal of cancer · 2002 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Six new human biliary tract cancer cell lines (SNU-245, SNU-308, SNU-478, SNU-869, SNU-1079, SNU-1196) were established and characterised from Korean patients

  biliary snu lines microdissected culture fingerprinting pcr-sscp

• Candidate target genes for loss of heterozygosity on human chromosome 17q21.

  PMID 15187990 · PMC2409524 · British journal of cancer · 2004 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  JUP (plakoglobin) is the only identified gene physically located between the D17S746 and D17S846 markers that define the smallest common region of LOH on chromosome 17q21

  genomic normal breast p1-phage nucleotide rt-pcr cold

• The role of MYH and microsatellite instability in the development of sporadic colorectal cancer.

  PMID 17031395 · PMC2360566 · British journal of cancer · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MYH-associated colorectal cancers can develop through either a chromosomal instability pathway or a microsatellite instability (MSI) pathway, contradicting the assumption that these are mutually exclusive.

  lymphocyte colorectal tumour msi-positive pcr restriction microsatellite