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).

• Human epigenome project--up and running.

  PMID 14691553 · PMC300691 · PLoS biology · 2003 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Epigenetic modifications (e.g., DNA methylation) rather than DNA sequence differences explain phenotypic differences between genetically identical individuals, such as monozygotic twins or inbred mice.

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• Quantitative epigenetic co-variation in CpG islands and co-regulation of developmental genes.

  PMID 23999385 · PMC6505400 · Scientific reports · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Four epigenetic modifications (DNA methylation, H3K4me2, H3K4me3, H3K27me3) in mouse CGIs undergo combinatorial variation (co-variation) across ESCs, NPCs and adult brain during neuron differentiation.

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• Aberration in DNA methylation in B-cell lymphomas has a complex origin and increases with disease severity.

  PMID 23326238 · PMC3542081 · PLoS genetics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas display striking intra-tumor (intra-sample) and inter-patient (inter-sample) cytosine methylation heterogeneity that increases progressively with disease aggressiveness (NBC<NGC<FL<GCB<ABC).

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• Epigenetics and phenotypic variation in mammals.

  PMID 16688527 · PMC3906716 · Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Epigenetic modifications are mitotically heritable, but the fidelity of meiotic/transgenerational inheritance in mammals is poorly understood and evidence in mammals is scanty.

  mammalian mhc chromosomes embryonic methylation high-throughput chip

• DNA methylation and mRNA expression of SYN III, a candidate gene for schizophrenia.

  PMID 19102774 · PMC2630979 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Variation in SYN III distal CpG island methylation is not related to schizophrenia in the population sample or in a monozygotic twin pair discordant for schizophrenia

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• DNA methylation analysis by digital bisulfite genomic sequencing and digital MethyLight.

  PMID 18628296 · PMC2504308 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Digital PCR compartmentalizes individual bisulfite-converted DNA template molecules into separate wells, enabling single-molecule DNA methylation analysis

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• DNA methylation of cancer genome.

  PMID 19960550 · PMC2940836 · Birth defects research. Part C, Embryo today : reviews · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Cancer epigenome alterations fall into two main categories: hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes and hypomethylation of oncogenes or heterochromatin.

  embryonic germ heterozygous cancer gene hypomorphic methyltransferase

• Genome-scale approaches to the epigenetics of common human disease.

  PMID 19844740 · PMC3107986 · Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2010 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  DNA methylation is a stable, mitotically heritable epigenetic mark faithfully propagated by DNMT1 acting on hemimethylated DNA during replication

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• A comprehensive resource of genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic sequencing data for the black truffle Tuber melanosporum.

  PMID 25392735 · PMC4228822 · GigaScience · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  T. melanosporum shows a high rate of cytosine methylation (>44%) that selectively targets transposable elements rather than genes, with a strong preference for CpG sites.

  tuber ectomycorrhizal melanosporum rna-seq whole-genome sequencing guided

• Identification of Key Genes in Atherosclerosis by Combined DNA Methylation and miRNA Expression Analyses.

  PMID 35949126 · PMC9682560 · Anatolian journal of cardiology · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  10 key genes (TCF7L2, CACNA1C, NRP1, GABBR2, FANCC, DCK, CCDC88C, TCF12, ABLIM1, PBX1) are regulated by both aberrant DNA methylation and miRNA activity in atherosclerosis

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• DNA methylation profiling of the human major histocompatibility complex: a pilot study for the human epigenome project.

  PMID 15550986 · PMC529316 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  The human MHC methylation profile is strongly bimodal, with the vast majority of analysed regions being either hypo- (≤30%) or hypermethylated (≥70%)

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• The Multi-State Epigenetic Pacemaker enables the identification of combinations of factors that influence DNA methylation.

  PMID 39549198 · PMC11979089 · GeroScience · 2025 · 9 claims · 2 setups

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  The Multi-State Epigenetic Pacemaker (MSEPM) can accurately model multiple methylation-associated factors (e.g., age, sex, cell-type) simultaneously.

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• Systematic benchmarking of tools for CpG methylation detection from nanopore sequencing.

  PMID 34103501 · PMC8187371 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Existing Nanopore methylation detection tools present a tradeoff between false positives and false negatives and show high dispersion relative to expected methylation frequency values.

  coli individual lymphoblastoid na12878 nanopore per-read consensus

• Differential Gene Expression and Methylation Analysis of Melanoma in TCGA Database to Further Study the Expression Pattern of KYNU in Melanoma.

  PMID 35893303 · PMC9329910 · Journal of personalized medicine · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Oncogenes MITF, KIT, CDH1, NRAS, AKT1, EGFR, TP53, and CDK4 are elevated while tumor suppressors PTEN, cAMP, and BCL2 are reduced in melanoma

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• Detecting aberrant DNA methylation in Illumina DNA methylation arrays: a toolbox and recommendations for its use.

  PMID 37218167 · PMC10208159 · Epigenetics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Developed OutlierMeth, an R package that computes probe-specific thresholds and flags DNA methylation outliers from array data

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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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• H3K27 and H3K9 methylation mask potential CTCF binding sites to maintain 3D genome integrity.

  PMID 40764058 · PMC12487818 · Genome research · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  H3K9 and H3K27 methylation regulate CTCF binding at distinct genomic regions, and their simultaneous loss induces drastic changes in CTCF binding

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• 4-Methylcytosine DNA modification is critical for global epigenetic regulation and virulence in the human pathogen Leptospira interrogans.

  PMID 33301041 · PMC7708080 · Nucleic acids research · 2020 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Inactivation of the orphan 4mC methyltransferase (LomA) causes complete abrogation of CTAG motif methylation genome-wide

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• CpG island methylation status and mutation analysis of the RB1 gene essential promoter region and protein-binding pocket domain in nervous system tumours.

  PMID 12556968 · PMC2376780 · British journal of cancer · 2003 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  RB1 CpG island hypermethylation is a common epigenetic event associated with development of malignant nervous system tumours

  nervous bisulphite-modified same pcr-sscp methylation-specific bisulphite

• Microarray-based DNA methylation profiling: technology and applications.

  PMID 16428248 · PMC1345696 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A microarray-based method enriching unmethylated and methylated DNA fractions via methylation-sensitive restriction enzymes followed by hybridization enables high-throughput DNA methylation profiling of large genomic regions.

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