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).

• Significance of the parkin and PINK1 gene in Jordanian families with incidences of young-onset and juvenile parkinsonism.

  PMID 19087301 · PMC2635385 · BMC neurology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A parkin exon 4 deletion segregates with disease in a three-generation family (Family F), homozygous in both affected individuals

  consanguineous same affected family sanger multiplex microsatellite

• 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

• Family history of breast cancer and all-cause mortality after breast cancer diagnosis in the Breast Cancer Family Registry.

  PMID 19034644 · PMC2728159 · Breast cancer research and treatment · 2009 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Family history of breast cancer is not associated with all-cause mortality after breast cancer diagnosis in women without a known germline BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation.

  women same breast structured cox germline

• A novel Twinkle (PEO1) gene mutation in a Chinese family with adPEO.

  PMID 18989381 · PMC2579934 · Molecular vision · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Two-point linkage analysis maps this Chinese adPEO family to the PEO1 (Twinkle) locus on chromosome 10q23.3-24.3, with the other three candidate genes excluded.

  members family biceps proband two-point direct muscle

• "Sequencing-grade" screening for BRCA1 variants by oligo-arrays.

  PMID 18973698 · PMC2583995 · Journal of translational medicine · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  An oligo-array platform can detect BRCA1 SNPs, insertions, and deletions of known and unknown variants, including in heterozygous conditions, with accuracy comparable to direct sequencing

  genomic pcr mcf-10a brca1 oligo-nucleotide direct pcr

• The genome of Brugia malayi - all worms are not created equal.

  PMID 18952001 · PMC2668601 · Parasitology international · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparative genome analysis shows conserved long-range synteny but divergent local gene order between B. malayi and C. elegans, reflecting distinct evolutionary trajectories of parasitic and free-living lineages.

  malayi elegans wbm-infected filarial whole-genome genome-wide comparative

• Novel causative mutations in patients with Nance-Horan syndrome and altered localization of the mutant NHS-A protein isoform.

  PMID 18949062 · PMC2571945 · Molecular vision · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Truncating (nonsense/frameshift) mutations in NHS cause Nance-Horan syndrome by prematurely terminating the protein

  genomic nhs-a hek mdck pcr pcr-based western

• Transcription-terminating mutation in telethonin causing autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy type 2G in a European patient.

  PMID 18948002 · PMC2592511 · Neuromuscular disorders : NMD · 2008 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  The patient carries a homozygous Trp25X (TGG→TGA) mutation in TCAP causing premature termination of translation/transcription and complete telethonin deficiency.

  pelvis skeletal muscle genomic muscle histology electron

• Analysis of Nigerians with apparently sporadic Parkinson disease for mutations in LRRK2, PRKN and ATXN3.

  PMID 18927607 · PMC2559870 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  No pathogenic mutations were found in LRRK2, PRKN, or ATXN3 in a Nigerian cohort of apparently sporadic PD patients.

  nigerian same novel sanger targeted repeat

• The role of positive selection in determining the molecular cause of species differences in disease.

  PMID 18837980 · PMC2576240 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Genes predicted to be under positive selection during human evolution are implicated in diseases (epithelial cancers, schizophrenia, autoimmune diseases, Alzheimer's disease) that differ in prevalence and symptomatology between humans and other mammals

  orthologous omim meta-database panther comparative disease protein-protein

• Pol II promoter prediction using characteristic 4-mer motifs: a machine learning approach.

  PMID 18834544 · PMC2575220 · BMC bioinformatics · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  128 discriminating 4-mer motifs combined with an SVM (RBF kernel, LIBSVM) can distinguish promoter from non-promoter DNA sequences

  plant drosophila promoter same 4-mer tata blast

• Statistical challenges in preprocessing in microarray experiments in cancer.

  PMID 18829474 · PMC3529914 · Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Choice of pre-processing method materially changes which features are found significantly associated with survival in the Beer et al. lung cancer microarray dataset

  lung beer individual outlier expression rank-covariance quality-control

• Initial characterization of Chlamydophila (Chlamydia) pneumoniae cultured from the late-onset Alzheimer brain.

  PMID 18829386 · PMC2730674 · International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM · 2009 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  C. pneumoniae was cultured from two late-onset AD brain tissue samples (Tor-1 from hippocampus, Phi-1 from temporal cortex) from different North American regions.

  tor-1 brain hep-2 pcr culture immunofluorescence

• Human PMS2 deficiency is associated with impaired immunoglobulin class switch recombination.

  PMID 18824584 · PMC2571921 · The Journal of experimental medicine · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Homozygous deleterious PMS2 mutations are associated with a B cell-intrinsic CSR deficiency in three patients

  pbls fibroblasts cd19+ rt-pcr genomic western

• Characterization of large rearrangements in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease and the PKD1/TSC2 contiguous gene syndrome.

  PMID 18818683 · PMC2756756 · Kidney international · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Developed an MLPA assay with PKD1 exon 1-33 probes designed at single base-pair mismatches with the six PKD1 pseudogenes to achieve locus specificity

  blood-derived blood crisp father mlpa long-range field

• Identification of SLC26A4 gene mutations in Iranian families with hereditary hearing impairment.

  PMID 18813951 · PMC4428656 · European journal of pediatrics · 2009 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  SLC26A4 mutations are the most prevalent cause of syndromic hereditary hearing loss (Pendred syndrome) in Iran

  affected short pcr perchlorate

• Genetics of Meesmann corneal dystrophy: a novel mutation in the keratin 3 gene in an asymptomatic family suggests genotype-phenotype correlation.

  PMID 18806880 · PMC2538492 · Molecular vision · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A novel heterozygous 1493A>T mutation in exon 7 of KRT3, predicting E498V, was identified as the cause of MCD in this family

  cornea genomic slit-lamp confocal pcr

• A novel POMT2 mutation causes mild congenital muscular dystrophy with normal brain MRI.

  PMID 18804929 · PMC2702532 · Brain & development · 2009 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel homozygous POMT2 mutation (c.604T>G, p.F202V) causes mild congenital muscular dystrophy with normal brain MRI

  skeletal genomic cos serum immunohistochemistry immunoblotting laminin

• Evaluating the performance of Affymetrix SNP Array 6.0 platform with 400 Japanese individuals.

  PMID 18803882 · PMC2566316 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  About 20% of the 909,622 SNPs on the SNP Array 6.0 are monomorphic in the Japanese population

  genomic japanese reference snp concentration agarose

• Prioritization of candidate cancer genes--an aid to oncogenomic studies.

  PMID 18710882 · PMC2566894 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Computational classifiers using combinations of protein conservation, gene structure, protein domains, protein interactions, and regulatory data can distinguish known cancer genes (CD/CR) from unlabelled human genes

  genes cancer interpro interactome averaged cross-validation domain