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).

• Variants in the vitamin D receptor gene and asthma.

  PMID 15651992 · PMC546000 · BMC genetics · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  VDR gene variants are candidate risk factors for asthma/allergy because vitamin D effects are mediated through the VDR and VDR maps to the 12q asthma linkage region

  individuals children parents transmission bronchial pulmonary

• The evolution and genomic landscape of CGB1 and CGB2 genes.

  PMID 17055150 · PMC2599907 · Molecular and cellular endocrinology · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CGB1 and CGB2 arose via insertion of a DNA fragment (736/724 bp) replacing part of the ancestral hCGβ promoter and 5'-UTR, creating a novel exon 1 and causing a frameshift that produces a completely different 132-aa protein unrelated to hCGβ

  genomic great cgb1 chimpanzee pcr population hka

• Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation, time-of-flight mass spectrometry in genomics research.

  PMID 16895448 · PMC1523240 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MALDI-TOF MS-based primer extension assays (hME, iPLEX) enable cost-effective, high-throughput multiplexed SNP genotyping

  genomic domestic pooled colorectal snp pooling microsatellite

• Novel integrative genomics strategies to identify genes for complex traits.

  PMID 16886998 · PMC2367618 · Animal genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Forward genetics is restricted to genes harboring mutations, systematically missing network genes that causally influence disease without themselves being mutated.

  bxd mice bxh alox5 qtl knockout linkage

• Willing to do the math: an interview with David Botstein. Interview by Jane Gitschier.

  PMID 16733551 · PMC1464829 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Highly polymorphic, multiallelic DNA markers spaced across the genome could be used to build a complete human genetic linkage map

  families bacteria genome family genetic transposon

• Coverage and characteristics of the Affymetrix GeneChip Human Mapping 100K SNP set.

  PMID 16680197 · PMC1456318 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  SNPs in the Affymetrix 100K set are undersampled from coding regions (both synonymous and nonsynonymous) and oversampled from regions outside genes, relative to HapMap SNPs

  genome autosomal hapmap chromosome snp chromosomal minor

• A clustering property of highly-degenerate transcription factor binding sites in the mammalian genome.

  PMID 16670430 · PMC1456330 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Highly-degenerate RE1 sites are significantly enriched in promoters of validated and putative REST target genes compared to control promoters

  orthologous randomized high-score promoters pssm-based comparative motif

• CARAT: a novel method for allelic detection of DNA copy number changes using high density oligonucleotide arrays.

  PMID 16504045 · PMC1402331 · BMC bioinformatics · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CARAT is a novel algorithm that uses SNP probe intensity and genotype-based allelic dosage response in a regression framework to estimate allele-specific copy number genome-wide.

  normal genomic sk-br-3 cancer snp quantitative allele-specific

• Gene losses during human origins.

  PMID 16464126 · PMC1361800 · PLoS biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A comparative genomic screen identified 67 new human-specific nonprocessed pseudogenes, bringing the total (with 13 from prior literature) to 80 human-specific pseudogenes.

  pseudogene chimpanzee human-specific population comparative phylogenetic fisher's

• Genetic analysis of completely sequenced disease-associated MHC haplotypes identifies shuffling of segments in recent human history.

  PMID 16440057 · PMC1331980 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Complete 4.25-Mb sequence of the QBL haplotype was determined by BAC shotgun sequencing and compared with PGF (reference) and COX haplotypes

  qbl pgf classical ceph bac comparative gene

• Comparative analysis of cancer genes in the human and chimpanzee genomes.

  PMID 16438707 · PMC1382208 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  All 333 examined human cancer genes have intact, highly conserved orthologs in the chimpanzee genome (99.38% protein identity).

  chimpanzee non-human cancer comparative pcr targeted

• Microsatellite instability analysis in hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer using the Bethesda consensus panel of microsatellite markers in the absence of proband normal tissue.

  PMID 16426447 · PMC1373649 · BMC medical genetics · 2006 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  MSI status can be determined in the absence of proband non-tumor tissue by comparing tumor alleles to alleles carried by the proband's progenitors

  proband's peripheral hmsh2 microsatellite direct targeted

• Comparative genomics search for losses of long-established genes on the human lineage.

  PMID 18085818 · PMC2134963 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel comparative genomics method (TransMap-based syntenic mapping of gene structures between human, mouse, and dog) can detect losses of well-established single-copy genes without relying on sequence homology to a parental gene, distinguishing them from typical duplication- or retrotransposition-derived pseudogenes.

  dog genome chimp gorilla comparative overlap visual

• Cubic exact solutions for the estimation of pairwise haplotype frequencies: implications for linkage disequilibrium analyses and a web tool 'CubeX'.

  PMID 17980034 · PMC2180187 · BMC bioinformatics · 2007 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  CubeX, a Python program/web tool, computes the exact algebraic (Cardan/Nickalls) solution(s) of Hill's cubic equation to estimate pairwise haplotype frequencies, D', r2 and chi-square for each solution

  simulated real apoe igf2 cubic pairwise haplotype

• Comparative genomic analysis of Campylobacter jejuni associated with Guillain-Barré and Miller Fisher syndromes: neuropathogenic and enteritis-associated isolates can share high levels of genomic similarity.

  PMID 17919333 · PMC2174954 · BMC genomics · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  GBS/MFS strains are genomically heterogeneous, falling into about six major lineages rather than a single clonal group

  jejuni subset matched comparative fisher's hierarchical

• BCoR-L1 variation and breast cancer.

  PMID 17697391 · PMC2206730 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  BCoR-L1 expression does not play a large role in predisposition to familial breast cancer

  genomic aberrant lymphoblastoid mouse-human dhplc sanger qrt-pcr

• Computer-aided identification of polymorphism sets diagnostic for groups of bacterial and viral genetic variants.

  PMID 17672919 · PMC1973086 · BMC bioinformatics · 2007 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  The Not-N algorithm, incorporated into the Minimum SNPs program, identifies small marker sets diagnostic for user-defined subgroups of genetic variants with 0% false negatives

  hcv campylobacter yersinia clostridium snp comparative cgh

• Widely variable endogenous retroviral methylation levels in human placenta.

  PMID 17617638 · PMC1950553 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  Three HERV-E LTRs that function as alternative gene promoters (LTR-PTN, LTR-EBR, LTR-MID1) are unmethylated in placenta but heavily methylated in blood cells, where they are not active promoters

  term placenta genome bisulfite rt-pcr genome-wide

• Simple models of genomic variation in human SNP density.

  PMID 17553150 · PMC1919371 · BMC genomics · 2007 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Hierarchical Poisson model B, which allows both the mutation-rate proxy (Beta-distributed Λ) and the ARG-size proxy (Gamma-distributed T) to vary, fits the observed SNP density distribution significantly better than models with only one or neither varying.

  genome observed simulated genome hierarchical coalescent

• Three novel mutations in KIF21A highlight the importance of the third coiled-coil stalk domain in the etiology of CFEOM1.

  PMID 17511870 · PMC1888713 · BMC genetics · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Most individuals with CFEOM1 and rare individuals with CFEOM3 harbor heterozygous mutations in KIF21A

  genomic pedigree proband pcr denaturing dhplc