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).

• Cell-Type-Specific Gene Modules Related to the Regional Homogeneity of Spontaneous Brain Activity and Their Associations With Common Brain Disorders.

  PMID 33958982 · PMC8093778 · Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Fourteen gene modules were consistently (Bonferroni-corrected) associated with ReHo across a discovery sample and two independent replication samples (including one non-Chinese HCP cohort).

  healthy postmortem ahba neocortex resting-state microarray weighted

• Cell type- and species-specific regulation of hepatic lncRNAs by TCDD-activated aryl hydrocarbon receptor.

  PMID 41136526 · PMC12552753 · Scientific reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  AHR-mediated lncRNA dysregulation may be a contributing mechanism in TCDD-elicited progression of steatosis to steatohepatitis with fibrosis

  liver mm39 bulk single-nuclei ahr

• Cell type-specific eQTL analysis of COVID-19 based on single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41064594 · PMC12501775 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell eQTL analysis across eight immune cell types identified 2593 genes whose expression is significantly associated with common genetic polymorphisms, with most genes showing cell type-specific effects

  pbmcs eight pbmc monocytes scrna-seq genetic cis-eqtl

• Digital sorting of complex tissues for cell type-specific gene expression profiles.

  PMID 23497278 · PMC3626856 · BMC bioinformatics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Digital Sorting Algorithm (DSA) deconvolves mixed tissue expression into cell type-specific profiles using only marker genes, without requiring prior knowledge of cell type frequencies or in vitro pure-cell profiles.

  liver im-9 immune deconvolved microarray simulation roc

• Cell-type- and chromosome-specific chromatin landscapes and DNA replication programs of Drosophila testis tumor stem cell-like cells.

  PMID 41371963 · PMC12758400 · Genome research · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  GSC-like and CySC-like cells isolated from upd tumor testes are transcriptionally comparable to wild-type GSC/early-spermatogonia and CySC clusters, respectively

  upd gsc-like wild-type scrna-seq differential gene

• Cell type-specific network analysis in Diversity Outbred mice identifies genes potentially responsible for human bone mineral density GWAS associations.

  PMID 41811178 · PMC12978698 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cell type-specific Bayesian and co-expression networks generated from BMSC-OB scRNA-seq data in Diversity Outbred mice can prioritize and contextualize genes underlying human BMD GWAS associations

  bmsc-ob genes mesenchymal gtex scrna-seq cellect iterativewgcna

• Deconvolving cell-type-specific gene expression profiles from bulk RNA-seq samples.

  PMID 41886524 · PMC13038110 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  BLUE, a U-Net-based deep learning model with dual branches (U-Net for GEPs, MLP for proportions), accurately predicts cell-type proportions and cell-type-specific gene expression profiles from bulk RNA-seq.

  pbmc pancreatic aml scrna-seq-derived real scrna-seq

• Variant-resolved prediction of context-specific isoform variation with a graph-based attention model.

  PMID 41547351 · PMC13069856 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Otari, an attention-based graph neural network trained on long-read transcriptomes across 30 tissues/brain regions, predicts tissue-specific differential isoform abundance

  tissues genomic gtex hgmd long-read variant splice

• Loss of Chromosome Y Associates With Altered Immune Cell Trajectories and X-Inactivation Features.

  PMID 42070154 · PMC13135724 · Aging cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  LOY has cell type-specific effects on immune cells, with the highest prevalence in classical monocytes, that vary along differentiation trajectories

  peripheral blood classical cd4+ single-cell snp differential

• Endothelial Adgrl2 Expression and Alternative Splicing Controls the Cerebrovasculature.

  PMID 41876233 · PMC13108381 · The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Endothelial cell-specific deletion of Adgrl2 impairs cerebrovascular integrity in mice

  wild-type cortex brain single-molecule single-cell immunohistochemistry

• Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes.

  PMID 40379625 · PMC12084633 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Pan-neuronal genes (expressed in many/all neurons) harbor highly cell-specific splice variants/isoforms restricted to single or few neuron types.

  elegans short-read whole-animal rt-pcr

• ChromBERT: A foundation model for learning interpretable representations for context-specific transcriptional regulatory networks.

  PMID 41592570 · PMC13069865 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  ChromBERT is pre-trained via masked reconstruction on the Cistrome-Human-6K dataset (6,391 cistromes, 991 transcription regulators) to learn genome-wide interaction syntax of transcription regulators

  lines chromosome embryonic transcription chip-seq chromhmm hi-c

• 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 incorporates molecular subtyping directly into the deconvolution process, outputting cohort-level cancer subtype and stromal reference profiles rather than per-individual profiles

  tcga simulated muscle-invasive ccrcc computational simulation-based deconvolution

• Single-cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility profiling elucidate the kidney-protective mechanism of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists.

  PMID 37906287 · PMC10760974 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mineralocorticoid effects are established through open chromatin and target gene expression primarily in principal and connecting tubule cells, and to a lesser extent in distal convoluted tubule cells

  kidney live blood snrna-seq snatac-seq bulk

• FEM: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 34909283 · PMC8641482 · PeerJ · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The FEM algorithm converts a single-cell gene expression matrix into a functional expression matrix using multi-module gene set enrichment analysis, utilizing information from all expressed genes rather than discarding filtered genes.

  pbmc pancreas liver scrna-seq single-cell fisher's dimensionality

• Hi-Compass: a depth-aware deep learning framework for predicting cell-type-specific 3D genome organization from single-cell to spatial resolution.

  PMID 41980945 · PMC13250166 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Hi-Compass predicts cell-type-specific Hi-C contact maps using only ATAC-seq as cell-type-specific input, plus DNA sequence and a generalized CTCF binding profile

  gm12878 curated bulk training hi-c ctcf matched

• Mouse placentae generated by in vitro fertilization exhibit altered gene expression, activated hypoxia responses, and reduced fitness†.

  PMID 40874534 · PMC12808545 · Biology of reproduction · 2026 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  IVF-conceived mouse placentae exhibit global and cell type–specific gene expression differences compared to FB placentae

  e12.5 differentially trophoblast placenta single-nucleus pseudobulk pathway

• EpiXFormer: a cross-attention neural network for predicting cell type-specific transcription factor binding sites.

  PMID 41527854 · PMC12796812 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EpiXFormer achieves high accuracy (mean AUROC ~0.99) predicting binding sites of both TFs and non-sequence-specific DBPs across 199 DBP-cell type pairs

  dbps tfs common ctcf deep comparative feature-ablation

• Differentiation in the human urothelia is defined by distinct alternative polyadenylation.

  PMID 41533515 · PMC12937501 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  APA introduces a major layer of transcriptomic diversity during urothelial differentiation, largely independent of changes in mRNA levels

  urothelial urothelial-specific ureter hek293t single-cell poly fluorescence

• Indigenous gut microbes modulate neural cell state and neurodegenerative disease susceptibility.

  PMID 41638211 · PMC13091097 · Cell systems · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A complex, intact gut microbiome is necessary for the steady-state transcriptional landscape of all major brain-resident cell types, with myelinating oligodendrocytes and immune cells showing the largest microbiome-dependent transcriptional response.

  hippocampus cd11b+ intestinal brain single-nucleus bulk multiplex