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

• 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

• 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

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

  PMID 39549198 · PMC11979089 · GeroScience · 2025 · 9 claims · 2 setups

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  The Multi-State Epigenetic Pacemaker (MSEPM) can accurately model multiple methylation-associated factors (e.g., age, sex, cell-type) simultaneously.

  blood simulated methylation simulation

• Optical mapping discerns genome wide DNA methylation profiles.

  PMID 18667073 · PMC2516518 · BMC molecular biology · 2008 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  Methylated restriction sites can be identified in optical maps as cleavage sites that are absent relative to the in silico (sequence-based) restriction map, since most restriction enzymes fail to cut methylated cognate sequences.

  escherichia embryonic optical

• A novel role for mitochondria in regulating epigenetic modification in the nucleus.

  PMID 18458531 · PMC2639623 · Cancer biology & therapy · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Mitochondria regulate epigenetic (DNA methylation) modification in the nucleus

  mcf12a mda-mb-435 143b restriction western bisulfite

• 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

• RADAR: differential analysis of MeRIP-seq data with a random effect model.

  PMID 31870409 · PMC6927177 · Genome biology · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  RADAR is a novel analytical tool for differential methylation analysis of MeRIP-seq data combining gene-level INPUT normalization with a Poisson random effect model.

  simulated fallopian pancreatic liver merip-seq m6a-merip-seq pca

• 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

• A reference profile-free deconvolution method to infer cancer cell-intrinsic subtypes and tumor-type-specific stromal profiles.

  PMID 32111252 · PMC7049190 · Genome medicine · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DeClust is a reference profile-free deconvolution method that simultaneously deconvolves bulk tumor expression into cancer, immune, and stromal compartments and clusters samples into cancer cell-intrinsic molecular subtypes, outputting subtype-specific reference profiles for the cohort rather than for individuals.

  solid muscle-invasive ccrcc for bulk single-cell scrna-seq

• DeepProg: an ensemble of deep-learning and machine-learning models for prognosis prediction using multi-omics data.

  PMID 34261540 · PMC8281595 · Genome medicine · 2021 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  DeepProg, an ensemble of deep-learning and machine-learning models, robustly predicts patient survival subtypes from multi-omics data and explicitly models survival as the objective while predicting new patient risks

  tcga breast metabric brca bulk mirna methylation

• CHEK2 mutations affecting kinase activity together with mutations in TP53 indicate a functional pathway associated with resistance to epirubicin in primary breast cancer.

  PMID 18725978 · PMC2518116 · PloS one · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  TP53 mutations, especially those affecting the L2/L3 DNA-binding domains, are associated with resistance (progressive disease) to epirubicin therapy

  snap-frozen tumor u-2-os patients pcr bisulphite loss

• pwrEWAS: a user-friendly tool for comprehensive power estimation for epigenome wide association studies (EWAS).

  PMID 31035919 · PMC6489300 · BMC bioinformatics · 2019 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  pwrEWAS is a user-friendly tool (R package and Shiny web interface) for comprehensive power estimation in two-group EWAS using Illumina HumanMethylation BeadChip technology.

  saliva blood cord-blood pbmc illumina simulation

• 5-methylcytosine RNA modification regulators-based patterns and features of immune microenvironment in acute myeloid leukemia.

  PMID 38277218 · PMC10911375 · Aging · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Most of the 17 m5C regulators are differentially expressed between AML and normal samples and correlate with AML prognosis.

  aml bulk mutation copy

• Evidence for L1-associated DNA rearrangements and negligible L1 retrotransposition in glioblastoma multiforme.

  PMID 27843499 · PMC5105311 · Mobile DNA · 2016 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Canonical (endonuclease-dependent, TPRT-driven) L1 retrotransposition is absent or negligible in GBM tumours and cultured GBM cell lines

  brain tumour gbm retrotransposon empty qrt-pcr

• Genome-wide DNA hypermethylation opposes healing in patients with chronic wounds by impairing epithelial-mesenchymal transition.

  PMID 35819852 · PMC9433101 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Chronic wound-edge tissue exhibits genome-wide DNA hypermethylation, with hypermethylation more prominent than hypomethylation across differentially methylated regions.

  chronic unwounded keratinocytes whole-genome bisulfite bulk

• The motor neuron m6A repertoire governs neuronal homeostasis and FTO inhibition mitigates ALS symptom manifestation.

  PMID 40307231 · PMC12043976 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  m6A hypomethylation (not hypermethylation) is consistently associated with ALS across patient iPSC-MNs, postmortem tissue, and independent transcriptomic datasets

  familial wild-type hek293t motor transcriptomic m6a shrna

• MSH6 missense mutations are often associated with no or low cancer susceptibility.

  PMID 15354210 · PMC2409912 · British journal of cancer · 2004 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Most MSH6 missense changes found in MSI-positive tumours are likely clinically innocent or of low cancer-susceptibility significance

  microdissected blood individuals paraffin-embedded microsatellite exon sscp

• Improvements to GALA and dbERGE II: databases featuring genomic sequence alignment, annotation and experimental results.

  PMID 15608239 · PMC539999 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GALA is now a set of interlinked relational databases covering five vertebrate species: human, chimpanzee, mouse, rat and chicken.

  chromosome genomic comparative phylohmmcons conserved

• One-pot shotgun quantitative mass spectrometry characterization of histones.

  PMID 19764812 · PMC2798817 · Journal of proteome research · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  One-pot propionylation and trypsin digestion of unfractionated bulk histones enables quantitative Bottom Up MS characterization of histone PTMs without prior off-line HPLC or SDS-PAGE purification

  hela wild-type set2δ yeast bottom rp-hplc one-pot