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).

• Adaptive history of single copy genes highly expressed in the term human placenta.

  PMID 18848617 · PMC2759754 · Genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  222 single copy eutherian genes are highly expressed (>=3x median) in the term human placenta

  term single same lists microarray comparative site

• Variations in the transcriptome of Alzheimer's disease reveal molecular networks involved in cardiovascular diseases.

  PMID 18842138 · PMC2760875 · Genome biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  AD-related genes (APOE, A2M, PON2, MAP4) and CVD-associated genes (COMT, CBS, WNK1) congregate in a single co-expression module, linking AD and CVD at the transcriptional level

  entorhinal subjects expression differentially microarray significance principal

• Initial characterization of Chlamydophila (Chlamydia) pneumoniae cultured from the late-onset Alzheimer brain.

  PMID 18829386 · PMC2730674 · International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM · 2009 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  C. pneumoniae was cultured from two late-onset AD brain tissue samples (Tor-1 from hippocampus, Phi-1 from temporal cortex) from different North American regions.

  tor-1 brain hep-2 pcr culture immunofluorescence

• Evidence for positive selection in putative virulence factors within the Paracoccidioides brasiliensis species complex.

  PMID 18820744 · PMC2553485 · PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Positive selection has played an important role in the molecular evolution of putative virulence factors of P. brasiliensis

  brasiliensis gp43 ratio codon-based mutational

• Ultraconserved coding regions outside the homeobox of mammalian Hox genes.

  PMID 18816392 · PMC2566984 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Ultraconserved coding regions (UCRs, ≥120 nt with no synonymous or nonsynonymous substitutions) exist outside the homeobox in mammalian Hox genes

  orthologous hox concatenated intronic sliding comparative molecular

• Mitochondrial localization and function of a subset of 22q11 deletion syndrome candidate genes.

  PMID 18775783 · PMC2729512 · Molecular and cellular neurosciences · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Six 22q11 genes (Mrpl40, Prodh, Slc25a1, Txnrd2, T10, Zdhhc8) encode proteins that localize to mitochondria, including neuronal/synaptic mitochondria.

  orthologues nih-3t3 3t3 mefs bioinformatic egfp co-transfection

• Function2Gene: a gene selection tool to increase the power of genetic association studies by utilizing public databases and expert knowledge.

  PMID 18631403 · PMC2500032 · BMC bioinformatics · 2008 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  Function2Gene is a set of Perl programs that queries public databases (NCBI, GeneCards, Harvester, with Uniprot/Ensembl also supported) using expert-selected keywords to rank genes by prior probability of disease association.

  gene nuclear sle tdt keyword-based snp transmission

• Convergence of mutation and epigenetic alterations identifies common genes in cancer that predict for poor prognosis.

  PMID 18507500 · PMC2429944 · PLoS medicine · 2008 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  At least 36 of the 189 newly mutated CAN genes are targets of promoter CpG island hypermethylation, often in both colon and breast cancer cell lines

  breast same selected hct116 expression methylation-specific rt-pcr

• Identification of candidate prostate cancer genes through comparative expression-profiling of seminal vesicle.

  PMID 18500686 · PMC2516917 · The Prostate · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Identified 32 genes (38 cDNAs) with an expression pattern of highest levels in seminal vesicle, lower in normal prostate, and lowest in prostate cancer

  normal prostate microarray cdna cross-tissue gene

• How many human genes can be defined as housekeeping with current expression data?

  PMID 18416810 · PMC2396180 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Current EST and microarray transcriptome sampling is far from saturated, limiting gene detectability and understanding of tissue-specific expression

  tissues genes est microarray comparative

• Transcription network construction for large-scale microarray datasets using a high-performance computing approach.

  PMID 18366618 · PMC2386070 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  RMT removes the random noise component of the gene expression correlation matrix by testing its eigenvalue statistics against a null hypothesis derived from a truly random correlation matrix

  yeast liver eight-node microarray k-means hybrid

• Prediction-based approaches to characterize bidirectional promoters in the mammalian genome.

  PMID 18366609 · PMC2386062 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The mapping algorithm identified 5,647 candidate bidirectional promoter regions in the mouse genome, similar in number to those previously found in human.

  genome seven genes computational cage comparative

• Natural selection of protein structural and functional properties: a single nucleotide polymorphism perspective.

  PMID 18397526 · PMC2643940 · Genome biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The SNP A/S ratio is a robust measure of selective constraint, correlating with interspecies Ka/Ks ratios and with protein sequence conservation.

  sequence genes proteins sequences snp interspecies sequence

• SNP selection for genes of iron metabolism in a study of genetic modifiers of hemochromatosis.

  PMID 18366708 · PMC2289803 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Illumina validation/design scores above 0.6 are not strongly correlated with actual SNP genotyping performance (Gentrain score)

  randomly heirs seattlesnps african resequencing genome-wide tag

• Proteomic view of mitochondrial function.

  PMID 18331620 · PMC2374722 · Genome biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Most modulators of basal mitochondrial function identified in the Drosophila RNAi screen are located outside the mitochondrion, since only 17 of 152 hits had a clear mitochondrial function.

  drosophila saccharomyces caenorhabditis yeast genome-wide phenotypic morphology

• Identification of multiple independent horizontal gene transfers into poxviruses using a comparative genomics approach.

  PMID 18304319 · PMC2268676 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Comparative synteny conservation around a horizontally transferred gene (HTgene) can distinguish single versus multiple independent HGT events even without a robust phylogenetic tree.

  poxvirus core psi-blast comparative molecular

• 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

• Up regulation in gene expression of chromatin remodelling factors in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.

  PMID 18248679 · PMC2277413 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Chromatin remodelling-associated genes SMARCC1, NCOR1, MRFAP1 and MORF4L2 are upregulated during progression of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia

  cervical independent computational long real-time gene

• Computational analysis of splicing errors and mutations in human transcripts.

  PMID 18194514 · PMC2234086 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Retained introns are significantly shorter than constitutively spliced introns

  refseq genes intron exon computational splice prediction

• Conserved elements with potential to form polymorphic G-quadruplex structures in the first intron of human genes.

  PMID 18187510 · PMC2275096 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  G-richness downstream of the TSS is strand-biased, concentrated on the nontemplate strand, with a peak at +200 to +300 bp

  refseq chicken random genome-wide quadparser regulatory