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).

• Complex genetic diseases: controversy over the Croesus code.

  PMID 11532206 · PMC138948 · Genome biology · 2001 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  The common disease/common variant hypothesis is predicted by population genetic theory (founder population dynamics, mutation-drift-selection balance) and supported by empirical examples such as APOE*E4.

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• Disease-aging network reveals significant roles of aging genes in connecting genetic diseases.

  PMID 19779549 · PMC2739292 · PLoS computational biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Human disease genes are much closer to aging genes in the PPI network than expected by chance

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• Integration of text- and data-mining using ontologies successfully selects disease gene candidates.

  PMID 15767279 · PMC1065256 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Integrating eVOC anatomical ontology-based text-mining of PubMed abstracts with data-mining of gene expression annotation successfully selects and prioritizes candidate disease genes

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• Computational disease gene identification: a concert of methods prioritizes type 2 diabetes and obesity candidate genes.

  PMID 16757574 · PMC1475747 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Applying seven independent computational disease-gene prioritization methods in concert to 9556 positional candidate genes identifies a prioritized set of likely T2D and obesity candidate genes

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• What can genome-wide association studies tell us about the genetics of common disease?

  PMID 18454206 · PMC2323402 · PLoS genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Apparent patterns of common, low-effect disease-associated alleles largely reflect statistical power of studies rather than the true underlying distribution of disease variants

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• Network properties of complex human disease genes identified through genome-wide association studies.

  PMID 19956617 · PMC2779513 · PloS one · 2009 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Complex disease genes are significantly less central (lower degree/closeness, higher eccentricity) in the human interactome than essential and monogenic disease genes, occupying an intermediate niche between monogenic disease genes and non-disease genes

  complex interactome gene disease-sharing gene protein-protein

• A universal mechanism ties genotype to phenotype in trinucleotide diseases.

  PMID 18039028 · PMC2082501 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A universal mechanism of somatic, length-dependent trinucleotide repeat expansion toward a disease-specific pathological threshold explains genotype-phenotype correlations common to trinucleotide diseases

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• Size matters: just how big is BIG?: Quantifying realistic sample size requirements for human genome epidemiology.

  PMID 18676414 · PMC2639365 · International journal of epidemiology · 2009 · 7 claims · 2 setups

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  Conventional power calculations for case-control studies disregard analytic complexity (e.g. clinical assessment errors, unmeasured aetiological determinants) and can seriously underestimate true sample size requirements

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• Association of GSK3B with Alzheimer disease and frontotemporal dementia.

  PMID 18852354 · PMC2841136 · Archives of neurology · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The GSK3B intronic polymorphism IVS2-68G>A is associated with increased risk of AD and FTD in a case-control cohort

  genomic case-control family-based sib-pair pcr allele-specific fluorescence-polarization

• 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

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• The genomic analysis of erythrocyte microRNA expression in sickle cell diseases.

  PMID 18523662 · PMC2408759 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mature human erythrocytes lack ribosomal/large RNAs but contain abundant and diverse microRNAs

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• A simple and efficient algorithm for genome-wide homozygosity analysis in disease.

  PMID 19756043 · PMC2758715 · Molecular systems biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A genome-wide AH analysis (GAHA) algorithm can identify disease-associated loci by comparing frequencies of homozygous segments between cases and controls using a z-statistic proportion test

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• What have we learned from the congenital myasthenic syndromes.

  PMID 19688192 · PMC3050586 · Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2010 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CMS have been traced to mutations in at least 11 disease genes encoding proteins at the neuromuscular junction

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• Genome-wide linkage analysis of an autosomal recessive hypotrichosis identifies a novel P2RY5 mutation.

  PMID 18692127 · PMC3341170 · Genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Autozygosity mapping identified a highly significant homozygous region on chromosome 13q14.11-q14.3 (Z/LOD=10.41)

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• A novel splice-site mutation of TULP1 underlies severe early-onset retinitis pigmentosa in a consanguineous Israeli Muslim Arab family.

  PMID 18432314 · PMC2329669 · Molecular vision · 2008 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  A novel homozygous splice-site mutation, c.1495+2_1495+3insT, in the donor splice-site of TULP1 intron 14 underlies autosomal recessive early-onset RP in family TB13.

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• Mutation analysis in primary immunodeficiency diseases: case studies.

  PMID 19841577 · PMC2774237 · Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Genomic DNA Sanger sequencing is the standard first-line approach for identifying PIDD-causing mutations but has limitations that can yield false-negative or false-positive results

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• Incorporation of genetic model parameters for cost-effective designs of genetic association studies using DNA pooling.

  PMID 17634103 · PMC1947971 · BMC genomics · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A closed-form approximation to the F-test non-centrality parameter (NCP) incorporating genetic model parameters (disease allele frequency, marker allele frequency, prevalence, genotype relative risk, sample size, genetic model, number of pools/replicates, machine variability) can be used to compute power for DNA pooling association studies

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• Premature centromere division of the X chromosome in neurons in Alzheimer's disease.

  PMID 18624923 · PMC2746937 · Journal of neurochemistry · 2008 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  PCD,X frequency is significantly elevated (~3-fold) in frontal cortex neurons of sporadic AD patients compared to age-matched controls

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• Understanding sex differences in environmental health: a thought leaders' roundtable.

  PMID 15064168 · PMC1241928 · Environmental health perspectives · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Dioxin and corticosteroids both cause thymic atrophy but via distinct mechanisms; dioxin's atrophy kinetics resemble those induced by estrogen despite acting through a different receptor.

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• Bayesian model accounting for within-class biological variability in Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE).

  PMID 15339345 · PMC517707 · BMC bioinformatics · 2004 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A Bayesian mixture model is proposed to account for within-class biological variability in SAGE/Digital-Northern/MPSS tag counting data.

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