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).

• Advances in breast cancer: pathways to personalized medicine.

  PMID 19088015 · PMC4535810 · Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Germline BRCA1/BRCA2 mutations are strong predictors of breast and ovarian cancer, conferring a 40-80% lifetime risk of breast cancer

  population-based women breast high-risk germline genome-wide microarray

• Stemming cancer: functional genomics of cancer stem cells in solid tumors.

  PMID 18561035 · PMC2758383 · Stem cell reviews · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cancer stem cells are a minority tumor subpopulation that alone can maintain indefinite tumor growth, as shown by serial transplantation experiments

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• Are the so-called low penetrance breast cancer genes, ATM, BRIP1, PALB2 and CHEK2, high risk for women with strong family histories?

  PMID 18557994 · PMC2481495 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mutation frequencies in ATM, BRIP1, PALB2 and CHEK2 are many times higher in women with strong breast cancer family history (familial cases) than in population controls.

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• A common missense variant in BRCA2 predisposes to early onset breast cancer.

  PMID 16280055 · PMC1410744 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2005 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  BRCA2 C5972T homozygosity (TT genotype) is rare but confers a roughly five-fold increased risk of breast cancer.

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• Numbers of mutations to different types of colorectal cancer.

  PMID 16202134 · PMC1266026 · BMC cancer · 2005 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Different biologic subtypes of colorectal cancer require different numbers of oncogenic mutations before transformation

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• Social and ethical implications of genomics, race, ethnicity, and health inequities.

  PMID 19000599 · PMC2892396 · Seminars in oncology nursing · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Race and ethnicity are increasingly viewed as genetic surrogates for predicting disease risk and treatment response, though directly assessing genomic and environmental factors is more accurate.

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• Population carrier frequency of hMSH2 and hMLH1 mutations.

  PMID 11104559 · PMC2363440 · British journal of cancer · 2000 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  Population carrier frequency of hMSH2/hMLH1 mutations in people aged 15-74 years is estimated at 1:3139 (95% CI 1:1247-1:7626)

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• Variation in breast cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.

  PMID 18710587 · PMC2575529 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Lifetime breast cancer risk estimates in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers vary widely (roughly 40% to >80%) depending on the study population and ascertainment method

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• Correcting scale distortion in RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 39875825 · PMC11776150 · BMC bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Local averaging reveals expression-level-dependent biases that differ from sample to sample across all RNA-seq datasets studied, and are not corrected by conventional normalization (TPM/FPKM)

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• Prevalence and penetrance of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in a population-based series of breast cancer cases. Anglian Breast Cancer Study Group.

  PMID 11044354 · PMC2408797 · British journal of cancer · 2000 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations are rare in the general population and account for only a small fraction of all breast cancer in the UK

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• Rare germline mutations in the BRCA2 gene are associated with early-onset prostate cancer.

  PMID 17700570 · PMC2360390 · British journal of cancer · 2007 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  Germline protein-truncating BRCA2 mutations confer an elevated relative risk (~7.8-fold) of early-onset prostate cancer in Caucasian men

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• Molecular genetic analysis of the cytochrome P450-debrisoquine hydroxylase locus and association with cancer susceptibility.

  PMID 1486838 · PMC1519624 · Environmental health perspectives · 1992 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A PCR-RFLP DNA-based assay targeting the intron 3/exon 4 G-to-A transition can identify approximately 70-80% of CYP2D6 poor metabolizers (PMs) without drug phenotyping.

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• Association between Arsenic Level, Gene Expression in Asian Population, and In Vitro Carcinogenic Bladder Tumor.

  PMID 35039759 · PMC8760535 · Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2022 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A unique set of 147 genes is associated with arsenic exposure and linked to molecular mechanisms of cancer.

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• CHEK2 variants associate with hereditary prostate cancer.

  PMID 14612911 · PMC2394451 · British journal of cancer · 2003 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  CHEK2 1100delC frameshift mutation is significantly more frequent in Finnish HPC patients than in population controls

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• MSI test to distinguish between HNPCC and other predisposing syndromes -- of value in tailored surveillance.

  PMID 15528791 · PMC3839337 · Disease markers · 2004 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  MSI (or immunohistochemistry) testing applied to a pre-selected patient with a family history or early-onset colorectal cancer can distinguish HNPCC from unknown non-HNPCC colorectal cancer syndromes.

  population-based swedish colorectal hnpcc clinical histopathological microsatellite

• BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation predictions using the BOADICEA and BRCAPRO models and penetrance estimation in high-risk French-Canadian families.

  PMID 16417652 · PMC1413985 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  BOADICEA predicts accurately the number of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations across family groups and discriminates well between carriers and noncarriers

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• Prospective health care: the second transformation of medicine.

  PMID 16522218 · PMC1431721 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Predictive biomarkers (genomic, proteomic, metabolomic) will enable quantification of disease risk and anticipation of onset before pathological damage occurs.

  cancer circulating breast population gene-expression proteomic 21-gene

• Mutation analysis of the MDM4 gene in German breast cancer patients.

  PMID 18279506 · PMC2259322 · BMC cancer · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Resequencing of the whole MDM4 coding region in 40 German familial breast cancer patients uncovered two coding variants (V74V and D153G) in 4/40 patients

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• Needles in the haystack: identifying individuals present in pooled genomic data.

  PMID 19798441 · PMC2747273 · PLoS genetics · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The distribution of T for null samples (individuals not in F or G) deviates strongly from the assumed standard normal, in both location and width.

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• Prevalence and functional analysis of sequence variants in the ATR checkpoint mediator Claspin.

  PMID 19737971 · PMC2994259 · Molecular cancer research : MCR · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CLSPN is a mediator protein essential for the ATR- and CHK1-dependent checkpoint response to replicative stress or single-stranded DNA

  ebv-immortalized sporadic same caucasian genomic denaturing genotyping