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).

• Germline mutations of the INK4a-ARF gene in patients with suspected genetic predisposition to melanoma.

  PMID 14735200 · PMC2409576 · British journal of cancer · 2004 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  Seven germline INK4a-ARF changes (five novel) were found in 7 of 89 patients (8%) suspected of genetic predisposition to melanoma.

  genomic pcr real-time

• B-RAF and N-RAS mutations are preserved during short time in vitro propagation and differentially impact prognosis.

  PMID 17311103 · PMC1794595 · PloS one · 2007 · 5 claims · 4 setups

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  B-RAF and N-RAS mutation status is well preserved (strongly concordant) between tumor tissue biopsies and corresponding short-term in vitro propagated cell lines.

  tumor biopsy-derived metastatic pcr direct survival

• Increased cyclin D1 expression can mediate BRAF inhibitor resistance in BRAF V600E-mutated melanomas.

  PMID 18790768 · PMC2651569 · Molecular cancer therapeutics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  CDK4 mutations (K22Q, R24C, R24L) alone do not confer resistance to the BRAF inhibitor SB590885

  melanoma metastatic wm39 451lu mtt pcr array

• A common founder for the V126D CDKN2A mutation in seven North American melanoma-prone families.

  PMID 11506491 · PMC2364106 · British journal of cancer · 2001 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  All seven North American melanoma-prone families carrying V126D share a haplotype consistent with a single common founder/ancestor for the mutation

  melanoma-prone haplotype microsatellite maximum

• CDKN2A and CDK4 mutation analysis in Italian melanoma-prone families: functional characterization of a novel CDKN2A germ line mutation.

  PMID 11556834 · PMC2375081 · British journal of cancer · 2001 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Germ line CDKN2A mutations were found in 5 of 15 (33.3%) Italian melanoma-prone families, including one novel mutation (P48T) and three known pathogenic mutations (R24P, G101W, N71S)

  genomic radiolabelled tig-er u2os sscp protein-protein retroviral

• 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

• Detection of BRAF mutations in the tumour and serum of patients enrolled in the AZD6244 (ARRY-142886) advanced melanoma phase II study.

  PMID 19861964 · PMC2778539 · British journal of cancer · 2009 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  BRAF mutations can be detected in serum cfDNA of advanced melanoma patients using an ARMS allele-specific PCR assay

  serum-derived tumour serum ht29 arms sanger topo

• Frequent somatic mutations of GNAQ in uveal melanoma and blue naevi.

  PMID 19078957 · PMC2696133 · Nature · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GNAQ is frequently somatically mutated in blue nevi (83%) and uveal melanoma (46%)

  archival nevus htert melan-a sanger pna-clamp soft

• Improving melanoma classification by integrating genetic and morphologic features.

  PMID 18532874 · PMC2408611 · PLoS medicine · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  BRAF-mutant melanomas show distinct morphological features (upward migration and nesting of intraepidermal melanocytes, epidermal thickening, sharper lateral demarcation, larger/rounder/more pigmented tumor cells) compared to non-mutant melanomas

  archival same subset patients histopathological mutation quantitative

• Somatic deletion of the NF1 gene in a neurofibromatosis type 1-associated malignant melanoma demonstrated by digital PCR.

  PMID 16961930 · PMC1570477 · Molecular cancer · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Somatic deletion of the maternal NF1 allele occurred in the melanoma of an NF1 patient, demonstrating biallelic NF1 inactivation.

  peripheral microdissected formalin-fixed microsatellite conventional digital

• Patterns of somatic mutation in human cancer genomes.

  PMID 17344846 · PMC2712719 · Nature · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Systematic resequencing of a large gene family (protein kinases) across diverse cancers reveals a larger repertoire of cancer genes than previously anticipated

  cancers additional computational combined targeted follow-up statistical

• A comprehensive catalogue of somatic mutations from a human cancer genome.

  PMID 20016485 · PMC3145108 · Nature · 2010 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Whole-genome sequencing of COLO-829 melanoma cells and matched COLO-829BL normal cells produced the first comprehensive catalogue of somatic mutations from an individual cancer genome

  colo-829 additional whole-genome conventional pcr

• Deubiquitination enzyme USP35 negatively regulates MAVS signaling to inhibit anti-tumor immunity.

  PMID 40016186 · PMC11868397 · Cell death & disease · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  USP35 interacts with MAVS and removes its K63-linked polyubiquitin chains, inhibiting viral-induced MAVS-TBK1-IRF3 activation and downstream inflammatory gene expression

  tumor melanoma tcga-skcm hek293t bioinformatics geo kaplan-meier

• Oncogenic mutations in GNAQ occur early in uveal melanoma.

  PMID 18719078 · PMC2634606 · Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Activating GNAQ mutations at codon 209 occur in 33/67 (49%) of primary uveal melanomas, making it the most common known oncogenic mutation in UM

  uveal peripheral normal well-characterized pcr sequencing array-based

• Novel MEK1 mutation identified by mutational analysis of epidermal growth factor receptor signaling pathway genes in lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 18632602 · PMC2586155 · Cancer research · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A novel somatic MEK1 K57N mutation was identified in 2 of 207 primary lung adenocarcinomas

  nsclc 293t il-3-independent mutational site-directed cytokine-independence

• Enhancer Reprogramming Confers Dependence on Glycolysis and IGF Signaling in KMT2D Mutant Melanoma.

  PMID 33086062 · PMC7649750 · Cell reports · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KMT2D is a potent tumor suppressor in melanoma

  hmel-brafv600e tyr-creert2 tma kmt2d pooled xenograft genetically

• Fast, accurate, and racially unbiased pan-cancer tumor-only variant calling with tabular machine learning.

  PMID 36611079 · PMC9825621 · NPJ precision oncology · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Tabular ML classifiers (TabNet, XGBoost, LightGBM) trained on tumor-only-derived features achieve state-of-the-art somatic vs germline classification, with AUC>94% on TCGA holdout and AUC>85% on metastatic melanoma.

  tcga metastatic tumor-only whole-exome wes copy-number

• TFAP2 paralogs facilitate chromatin access for MITF at pigmentation and cell proliferation genes.

  PMID 35580127 · PMC9159589 · PLoS genetics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pigmentation genes are only expressed in mitfa-expressing zebrafish melanocyte-lineage cells that also express tfap2 paralogs

  gfp+ sk-mel-28 tfap2a single-cell crispr atac-seq