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).

• Transgenerational inheritance of an acquired small RNA-based antiviral response in C. elegans.

  PMID 22119442 · PMC3250924 · Cell · 2011 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  viRNA-mediated silencing of the FR1gfp Flock House virus is transmitted to RNAi-deficient (rde-1 or rde-4 homozygous) progeny and persists for many ensuing generations, i.e. an acquired antiviral trait is inherited.

  transgenic elegans four gfp genetic template-independence

• Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism due to a novel missense mutation in the first extracellular loop of the neurokinin B receptor.

  PMID 19755480 · PMC4306717 · The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2009 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Homozygosity for a novel TACR3 His148Leu mutation causes normosmic isolated hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (nIHH) in three siblings

  blood hek293a bosc serum sanger calcium confocal

• 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

• Functional analysis of the novel TBX5 c.1333delC mutation resulting in an extended TBX5 protein.

  PMID 18828908 · PMC2567295 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  c.1333delC is a novel de novo frameshift mutation in TBX5 exon 9 predicted to produce an elongated 580-amino-acid protein (74 miscoding + 62 supernumerary C-terminal residues) instead of a truncated one

  peripheral cos-7 direct confocal co-localization

• Localization studies of rare missense mutations in cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) facilitate interpretation of genotype-phenotype relationships.

  PMID 18951463 · PMC2785447 · Human mutation · 2008 · 5 claims · 5 setups

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  R1070P and R1070W CFTR mutants show apical membrane localization/insertion defects consistent with their associated disease severity

  polarized mdck mdck-cftr patients confocal surface western

• Double-strand breaks in the myotonic dystrophy type 1 and the fragile X syndrome triplet repeat sequences induce different types of mutations in DNA flanking sequences in Escherichia coli.

  PMID 17012280 · PMC1636463 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  DSBs induced at the TRS/vector junction (EcoRV site) generate numerous mutagenic events in flanking sequences, whereas DSBs within the repeat tract (EcoRI site) produce no such mutants

  coli plasmids plasmid white plasmid sequencing non-b

• TFAP2 paralogs facilitate chromatin access for MITF at pigmentation and cell proliferation genes.

  PMID 35580127 · PMC9159589 · PLoS genetics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pigmentation genes are only expressed in mitfa-expressing zebrafish melanocyte-lineage cells that also express tfap2 paralogs

  gfp+ sk-mel-28 tfap2a single-cell crispr atac-seq

• Physiology engages with functional genomics - at last.

  PMID 16086845 · PMC1273626 · Genome biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Large-scale QTL phenotyping in rat strains reveals that most hypertension-related traits are sexually dimorphic

  wild-type caenorhabditis kidney pcr qtl enu copas

• A combined approach exploring gene function based on worm-human orthology.

  PMID 15877817 · PMC1112593 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Strict phylogenetic criteria (concordant Neighbor Joining and Maximum Parsimony tree topology) can select single most-likely human orthologs for C. elegans genes despite the large phylogenetic distance between worm and human sequences.

  sapiens elegans hela phylogenetic rnai gfp

• Evolutionary repair: Changes in multiple functional modules allow meiotic cohesin to support mitosis.

  PMID 32155147 · PMC7138332 · PLoS biology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Replacing the mitotic kleisin Scc1 with the meiotic kleisin Rec8 impairs sister chromosome cohesion, advances genome replication timing, and reduces reproductive fitness by 45%.

  cerevisiae parallel evolved rec8-expressing competitive experimental whole-genome

• 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

• Pathway-targeting gene matrix for Drosophila gene set enrichment analysis.

  PMID 34710184 · PMC8553153 · PloS one · 2021 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Gene matrix files for GSEA are largely unavailable for Drosophila, limiting pathway-level enrichment analysis in this model organism

  drosophila reactome kegg gene fluorescence manual

• Bladder tumour-derived somatic TSC1 missense mutations cause loss of function via distinct mechanisms.

  PMID 18397877 · PMC2427143 · Human molecular genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  All six somatic TSC1 missense mutations found in bladder tumours cause loss of TSC1 function, but via distinct molecular mechanisms.

  hcv29 lines tsc1 bladder immunoblotting real-time co-immunoprecipitation

• The tumour suppressor L(3)mbt inhibits neuroepithelial proliferation and acts on insulator elements.

  PMID 21857667 · PMC3173870 · Nature cell biology · 2011 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Brain tumors in l(3)mbt mutants originate from overproliferation of neuroepithelial cells of the optic lobes, not from defects in asymmetric cell division.

  drosophila chip-seq chip immunostaining

• Neuronal Small RNAs Control Behavior Transgenerationally.

  PMID 31178120 · PMC6579485 · Cell · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neuron-specific synthesis of RDE-4-dependent small RNAs regulates germline amplified endogenous siRNAs and germline gene expression for multiple generations

  elegans prab-3 dissected worms small sequencing facs

• The Drosophila estrogen-related receptor promotes triglyceride storage within the larval fat body.

  PMID 40288680 · PMC12155637 · Journal of lipid research · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  dERR autonomously promotes TAG accumulation within larval fat body cells

  mid-l2 larval dissected tag immunofluorescence nile

• Discovery of a novel filamentous prophage in the genome of the Mimosa pudica microsymbiont Cupriavidus taiwanensis STM 6018.

  PMID 36925474 · PMC10011098 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The STM 6018 genome contains two prophages: a complete Mu-like capsular phage and a filamentous phage that integrates into a putative dif site.

  cupriavidus stm taiwanensis genome 16s average

• The GATA factor ELT-3 specifies endoderm in Caenorhabditis angaria in an ancestral gene network.

  PMID 36196618 · PMC9720673 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Can-elt-3 (and orthologues in C. portoensis and C. monodelphis) is expressed in the early E lineage prior to elt-2 orthologue expression

  angaria elegans portoensis gata rnai single-molecule smifish

• Genomic analysis of a heterogeneous Mendelian phenotype: multiple novel alleles for inherited hearing loss in the Palestinian population.

  PMID 16460646 · PMC3525152 · Human genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GJB2 (connexin 26) mutations account for hearing loss in only 17 of 156 families (11%), a smaller fraction than reported in other populations.

  palestinian genomic probands lymphoblasts targeted sanger pcr

• Identification of novel regulatory factor X (RFX) target genes by comparative genomics in Drosophila species.

  PMID 17875208 · PMC2375033 · Genome biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A subset of C. elegans DAF-19 target genes have Drosophila homologs that are also regulated by dRFX, showing conservation of the RFX regulatory cascade between the two species.

  drosophila genome melanogaster real-time comparative gfp