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).

• Construction and Validation of an Immune Infiltration-Related Gene Signature for the Prediction of Prognosis and Therapeutic Response in Breast Cancer.

  PMID 33986754 · PMC8110914 · Frontiers in immunology · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A higher immune infiltration-related risk score (IRS) indicates worse prognosis and lower sensitivity to immunotherapy in breast cancer patients

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• Bioinformatics Analysis of the Characteristics and Correlation of m6A Methylation in Breast Cancer Progression.

  PMID 35655723 · PMC9148239 · Contrast media & molecular imaging · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Breast cancer samples can be classified into 4 m6A subtypes (quiescent, m6A methylation, protein-binding, mixed) based on Z-score median of Set1 (writer+reader) and Set2 (eraser) gene expression

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• Involvement of N4BP2L1, PLEKHA4, and BEGAIN genes in breast cancer and muscle cell development.

  PMID 38859961 · PMC11163233 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  N4BP2L1, PLEKHA4, and BEGAIN, normally highly expressed in breast myoepithelial and smooth muscle cells, are significantly downregulated in breast tumor tissue of a 50-patient cohort

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• Elucidating the Prognostic and Therapeutic Implications of Insulin Resistance Genes in Breast Cancer: A Machine Learning-Powered Analysis.

  PMID 40427728 · PMC12109394 · Biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  A seven-gene IRG prognostic signature (LIFR, EZR, TBC1D4, NSF, RPL5, SAA1, PGK1) predicts overall survival in breast cancer across training and four validation cohorts

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• Activity of distinct growth factor receptor network components in breast tumors uncovers two biologically relevant subtypes.

  PMID 28446242 · PMC5406893 · Genome medicine · 2017 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Application of GFRN pathway signatures to breast tumor gene expression data identifies two discrete phenotypes: a 'survival phenotype' (concordant activation of HER2, IGF1R, AKT) and a 'growth phenotype' (concordant activation of EGFR, KRAS(G12V), RAF1, BAD)

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• Computationally scalable regression modeling for ultrahigh-dimensional omics data with ParProx.

  PMID 34254998 · PMC8575036 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2021 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  ParProx implements latent group lasso penalized regression (overlapping and non-overlapping groups) for survival (Cox) and classification (logistic) analysis of omics data.

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• A systems-level analysis of the mutually antagonistic roles of RKIP and BACH1 in dynamics of cancer cell plasticity.

  PMID 37963558 · PMC10645512 · Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  RKIP and BACH1 are negatively correlated with each other across most cancer types in TCGA

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• Parsimonious Gene Correlation Network Analysis (PGCNA): a tool to define modular gene co-expression for refined molecular stratification in cancer.

  PMID 30993001 · PMC6459838 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2019 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Retaining only the top ~3 most correlated edges per gene (EPG3) combined with FastUnfold clustering (termed PGCNA) produces gene co-expression modules with significantly better separation and enrichment of known biology than using all edges or other clustering methods.

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• Predicting Bone Metastasis Using Gene Expression-Based Machine Learning Models.

  PMID 34858485 · PMC8631472 · Frontiers in genetics · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A DNN model built on 34 top-ranked hub genes achieves the highest prediction accuracy (AUC 92.11%) for distinguishing primary from bone-metastasized tumors

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• Analyzing biomarker discovery: Estimating the reproducibility of biomarker sets.

  PMID 35901020 · PMC9333302 · PloS one · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Non-reproducibility is a common problem in biomarker discovery: independently derived biomarker sets for the same phenotype frequently share very few features across studies

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• Increased prevalence of hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal state and enhanced phenotypic heterogeneity in basal breast cancer.

  PMID 38974967 · PMC11225361 · iScience · 2024 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Luminal breast cancer gene expression signature is closely/positively associated with an epithelial signature

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• Automatic discovery of 100-miRNA signature for cancer classification using ensemble feature selection.

  PMID 31533612 · PMC6751684 · BMC bioinformatics · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  An ensemble feature selection strategy using consensus of feature relevance across 8 classifier types identifies a 100-miRNA signature from a 1046-feature TCGA dataset

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• Similarities and Differences in Gene Expression Networks Between the Breast Cancer Cell Line Michigan Cancer Foundation-7 and Invasive Human Breast Cancer Tissues.

  PMID 34056582 · PMC8155268 · Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MCF-7 cell lines and human breast cancer tissues show only minimal similarity in biological processes, though some fundamental functions like cell cycle are conserved.

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• Deciphering the Immune Microenvironment at the Forefront of Tumor Aggressiveness by Constructing a Regulatory Network with Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 38254989 · PMC10815467 · Genes · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  High expression of transcription factors FOXA1 and EZH2 in malignant cells at the invasive front plays a key role in driving tumor progression

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• Identification and validation of a metabolic-related gene risk model predicting the prognosis of lung, colon, and breast cancers.

  PMID 39779736 · PMC11711664 · Scientific reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  540 DEGs overlap across breast, colorectal, and lung cancers out of 11,384 DEGs analyzed

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• Advances in genomic and pharmacokinetic profiling for clinical stratification of metastatic breast cancer.

  PMID 41369820 · PMC12799884 · Discover oncology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Key genes AR, AKT1, UBC, CDH1, SMAD3, ROR1, and ROR2 are associated with chemotherapy resistance and poor prognosis in metastatic breast cancer

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• Comparison of RNA-Seq by poly (A) capture, ribosomal RNA depletion, and DNA microarray for expression profiling.

  PMID 24888378 · PMC4070569 · BMC genomics · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Ribo-Zero-Seq removes rRNA with efficiency comparable to poly(A)-based mRNA-Seq in both FF and FFPE RNA, whereas DSN-Seq leaves significantly more rRNA and shows greater variation.

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• Machine learning-based DNA microarray analysis for disease detection using the MICRO-AI framework.

  PMID 41925147 · PMC13051084 · Science progress · 2026 · 8 claims · 1 setups

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  MICRO-AI's attention-weighted feature fusion reduces dimensionality by over 99% (from ~20,000 to ~127 genes) without loss of biological significance

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• FRMD8 inhibits tumor metastasis in BRCA1-associated TNBC by negatively regulating tmTNF-α.

  PMID 40619383 · PMC12229025 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Low FRMD8 expression in BRCA1-mutant breast cancer cells significantly enhances metastatic potential to various organs

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• DeepProg: an ensemble of deep-learning and machine-learning models for prognosis prediction using multi-omics data.

  PMID 34261540 · PMC8281595 · Genome medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  DeepProg is a novel ensemble framework of deep-learning and machine-learning approaches that robustly predicts patient survival subtypes using multi-omics data

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