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).

• The association of membrane frizzled-related protein (MFRP) gene with acute angle-closure glaucoma--a pilot study.

  PMID 18781223 · PMC2532703 · Molecular vision · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  None of the three MFRP sequence variants tested (rs3814762, rs36015759, rs2510143) showed a statistically significant association with acute angle-closure glaucoma

  genomic same eyes pcr genotype linkage

• Cannabinoid type-1 receptor gene polymorphisms are associated with central obesity in a Southern Brazilian population.

  PMID 18776593 · PMC3827795 · Disease markers · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The CNR1 4895G allele is associated with waist-to-hip ratio (WHR)

  peripheral same pcr-rflp anthropometric biochemical

• Random amino acid mutations and protein misfolding lead to Shannon limit in sequence-structure communication.

  PMID 18769673 · PMC2518838 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The protein sequence-structure map behaves as a noisy digital communication channel whose capacity C exceeds the transmission rate R for native structures, satisfying Shannon's noisy channel theorem

  chains pdbselect25 same single-domain statistical channel negative

• Analysis of copy number variation using quantitative interspecies competitive PCR.

  PMID 18697816 · PMC2553599 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  qicPCR uses the entire genome of a single chimpanzee as a competitor, requiring only one reference sample for all assays and enabling large-scale multiplexing

  genomic single 22q11ds qicpcr-derived qicpcr mlpa fluorescence

• Correlating novel variable and conserved motifs in the Hemagglutinin protein with significant biological functions.

  PMID 18681973 · PMC2553082 · Virology journal · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  14 MEME blocks were identified in the HA protein of H3N2 strains (1968-1999), with blocks 1, 2, 3, and 7 correlating with several biological functions

  h3n2 meme sequence entropy

• Seasonality of influenza A(H3N2) virus: a Hong Kong perspective (1997-2006).

  PMID 18648550 · PMC2481298 · PloS one · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Influenza A(H3N2) seasonality is largely explained by global viral migration, with similar viruses appearing in different countries at different times

  influenza same hong gene maximum-likelihood protein-coding

• Molecular analysis of CHX10 and MFRP in Chinese subjects with primary angle closure glaucoma and short axial length eyes.

  PMID 18648522 · PMC2480479 · Molecular vision · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A rare CHX10 missense variant (c.728G>A, Gly243Asp) was identified in one PACG patient and absent in 215 controls, and is a possible disease-causing variant

  genomic same chx10 pacg pcr case-control cross-species

• Evaluation of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations and risk-prediction models in a typical Asian country (Malaysia) with a relatively low incidence of breast cancer.

  PMID 18627636 · PMC2575532 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  27 deleterious BRCA1/BRCA2 mutations were detected in 28 breast cancer patients (14 in BRCA1, 13 in BRCA2) among 187 tested

  blood-derived family brca1 direct multiplex boadicea

• PRESTO: rapid calculation of order statistic distributions and multiple-testing adjusted P-values via permutation for one and two-stage genetic association studies.

  PMID 18620604 · PMC2483288 · BMC bioinformatics · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  PRESTO is an order of magnitude faster than other existing permutation testing software for genetic association studies.

  case-control same wtccc genome-wide benchmark stratified

• Bayesian survival analysis in genetic association studies.

  PMID 18617538 · PMC2530885 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A novel Bayesian method (BETA-Surv) extends prior case-control haplotype-clustering work to censored survival outcomes by clustering haplotypes via gene tree/perfect phylogeny topology and relative mutation age.

  simulated same sanad bayesian univariate partial

• Methylation of class II transactivator gene promoter IV is not associated with susceptibility to multiple sclerosis.

  PMID 18606010 · PMC2464579 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Methylation of the MHC2TA promoter pIV is not associated with MS susceptibility; no methylation was detected in any twin sample regardless of disease status

  peripheral mhc2ta pcr sanger bisulfite cpg

• Association testing of novel type 2 diabetes risk alleles in the JAZF1, CDC123/CAMK1D, TSPAN8, THADA, ADAMTS9, and NOTCH2 loci with insulin release, insulin sensitivity, and obesity in a population-based sample of 4,516 glucose-tolerant middle-aged Danes.

  PMID 18567820 · PMC2518507 · Diabetes · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CDC123/CAMK1D rs12779790 risk allele (homozygous) is associated with decreased insulinogenic index, corrected insulin response (CIR), and AUC-insulin/AUC-glucose ratio, indicating impaired insulin release

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• Surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight proteomic profiling of breast carcinomas identifies clinicopathologically relevant groups of patients similar to previously defined clusters from cDNA expression.

  PMID 18510725 · PMC2481497 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2008 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Unsupervised hierarchical clustering of 130 SELDI-TOF peaks yielded six peak clusters and five distinct groups of breast cancer patients.

  lysates breast microarrays imac-preseparated seldi-tof pilot immunohistochemistry

• High resolution melting analysis for rapid and sensitive EGFR and KRAS mutation detection in formalin fixed paraffin embedded biopsies.

  PMID 18495026 · PMC2408599 · BMC cancer · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  HRM correctly identified all 73 EGFR-mutation-positive FFPE samples previously found by sequencing, giving 100% sensitivity and 90% specificity

  ffpe single high direct hrm

• Anticipation in familial lattice corneal dystrophy type I with R124C mutation in the TGFBI (BIGH3) gene.

  PMID 18470323 · PMC2373796 · Molecular vision · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  The R124C mutation (C417T) in exon 4 of TGFBI cosegregates with lattice corneal dystrophy type I in this Chilean family

  members same genomic clinical stereopsis sanger

• The estrogen hypothesis of schizophrenia implicates glucose metabolism: association study in three independent samples.

  PMID 18460190 · PMC2391158 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A novel candidate-gene selection strategy combining unbiased schizophrenia expression/linkage data with the estrogen hypothesis as a biological filter identifies glycolysis as a candidate pathway network for schizophrenia

  case-control same compilation snp haplotype pairwise

• A genome wide linkage scan of metacarpal size and geometry in the Framingham Study.

  PMID 18449921 · PMC2574919 · American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Metacarpal geometric indices (length, midshaft width, MCT, MCI, MZ) show significant heritability, ranging from 0.51 (MCT) to 0.82 (length)

  hand individuals same radiogrammetry genome-wide variance

• A novel mutation in GJA8 associated with jellyfish-like cataract in a family of Indian origin.

  PMID 18334946 · PMC2255026 · Molecular vision · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A novel heterozygous c.134G→C change in GJA8, causing p.W45S, was identified as the disease-associated mutation in the affected family

  genomic patients ethnically connexin50 bidirectional clinical sanger

• A non-parametric meta-analysis approach for combining independent microarray datasets: application using two microarray datasets pertaining to chronic allograft nephropathy.

  PMID 18302764 · PMC2276496 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel non-parametric meta-analysis approach for combining independent microarray datasets is presented, requiring no distributional assumptions and being logically intuitive.

  kidney same identified additional microarray significance fisher's

• Highly cost-efficient genome-wide association studies using DNA pools and dense SNP arrays.

  PMID 18276640 · PMC2346606 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Illumina HumanHap300 arrays are substantially more efficient than Affymetrix Genechip HindIII arrays for DNA-pooling based GWAS

  pools same publicly simulated pooling individual simulation