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).

• Microglia-containing cerebral organoids derived from induced pluripotent stem cells for the study of neurological diseases.

  PMID 36936782 · PMC10014280 · iScience · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel protocol using FGF/EGF/heparin growth factor supplementation and 10% CO2 culture generates cerebral organoids containing neurons, astrocytes, and microglia from iPSCs/hESCs

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• The motor neuron m6A repertoire governs neuronal homeostasis and FTO inhibition mitigates ALS symptom manifestation.

  PMID 40307231 · PMC12043976 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  m6A hypomethylation (not hypermethylation) is consistently associated with ALS across patient iPSC-MNs, postmortem tissue, and independent transcriptomic datasets

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• Molecular dissection of ALS-associated toxicity of SOD1 in transgenic mice using an exon-fusion approach.

  PMID 18424447 · PMC2465800 · Human molecular genetics · 2008 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) degrades mutant SOD1 mRNA carrying a PTC in non-terminal exons (1-4), explaining why ALS-associated PTC mutations are found only in exon 5

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• Developing a novel immune infiltration-associated mitophagy prediction model for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using bioinformatics strategies.

  PMID 38601155 · PMC11005030 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  An 18-gene mitophagy-related prognostic signature was identified by machine learning and used to build a prognostic risk score model for ALS.

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• Current and future directions in genomics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  PMID 18625410 · PMC3524513 · Physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics of North America · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Familial ALS (FALS, 5-10% of cases) follows Mendelian autosomal dominant inheritance, with 20% caused by SOD1 mutations and 80% by unknown mutations

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• Novel mutations in TARDBP (TDP-43) in patients with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  PMID 18802454 · PMC2527686 · PLoS genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Three heterozygous missense mutations (p.M337V, p.N345K, p.I383V) in exon 6 of TARDBP were identified in familial ALS patients

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• Applying proteomics to the diagnosis and treatment of ALS and related diseases.

  PMID 19670321 · PMC2836583 · Muscle & nerve · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Protein-based biomarkers for ALS/MND require further verification and large-scale validation/qualification studies, including disease mimics, before clinical use

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• SEMdag: Fast learning of Directed Acyclic Graphs via node or layer ordering.

  PMID 39775401 · PMC11709272 · PloS one · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  SEMdag() is a two-step order-based algorithm for fast learning of high-dimensional linear SEMs, using knowledge-based (KB) or data-driven bottom-up (BU) node/layer ordering followed by penalized (L1) DAG estimation

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• A HML6 endogenous retrovirus on chromosome 3 is upregulated in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis motor cortex.

  PMID 34253796 · PMC8275748 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The ERV locus HML6_3p21.31c is significantly upregulated in ALS post-mortem motor cortex after multiple-testing correction

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• RetroSnake: A modular pipeline to detect human endogenous retroviruses in genome sequencing data.

  PMID 36339261 · PMC9626663 · iScience · 2022 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  RetroSnake is an end-to-end, modular, computationally efficient Snakemake pipeline for detecting HERV-K insertions in short-read NGS data, from raw alignment files to an annotated interactive HTML report

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• Screening of the transcriptional regulatory regions of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  PMID 17456229 · PMC1868706 · BMC medical genetics · 2007 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  No mutations were identified in the VEGFR2 gene (exons 7, 18, 21, 27, promoter, or 5' UTR) in ALS patients

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• Characterization of detergent-insoluble proteins in ALS indicates a causal link between nitrative stress and aggregation in pathogenesis.

  PMID 19956584 · PMC2780298 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Triton X-100-insoluble fraction (TIF) from spinal cord of G93A SOD1 mice is enriched in specific proteins (cytoskeletal, chaperone, mitochondrial, metabolic, signaling) compared to WT mice, already at a preclinical stage.

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• The TREM2-APOE Pathway Drives the Transcriptional Phenotype of Dysfunctional Microglia in Neurodegenerative Diseases.

  PMID 28930663 · PMC5719893 · Immunity · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A common APOE-dependent microglial molecular signature (MGnD) — loss of homeostatic genes plus induction of inflammatory genes with Apoe among the most upregulated — occurs in ALS, MS and AD mouse models and around neuritic Aβ-plaques in human AD brain.

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• Mutational analysis of TARDBP in neurodegenerative diseases.

  PMID 20031275 · PMC2889148 · Neurobiology of aging · 2011 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  TARDBP mutations are not a significant cause of AD or PD

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• Human CCS gene: genomic organization and exclusion as a candidate for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

  PMID 11991808 · PMC107843 · BMC genetics · 2002 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  The genomic organization of human CCS was characterized, with the 823 bp coding region organized into 8 exons spanning 12798 bp of genomic DNA.

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• A common haplotype within the PON1 promoter region is associated with sporadic ALS.

  PMID 18618303 · PMC2739087 · Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis : official publication of the World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Motor Neuron Diseases · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Two SNPs (rs987539 in PON2 intron 6 and rs2074351 upstream of PON1 exon 2) within the paraoxonase gene cluster are significantly associated with susceptibility to sporadic ALS

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• Bioinformatics and system biology approaches to identify pathophysiological impact of COVID-19 to the progression and severity of neurological diseases.

  PMID 34601390 · PMC8483812 · Computers in biology and medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  COVID-19 and neurological diseases (NDs) share pathophysiological connections that influence disease progression and severity

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• Gene co-expression network analysis in human spinal cord highlights mechanisms underlying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis susceptibility.

  PMID 33707641 · PMC7970949 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  WGCNA on control human cervical spinal cord RNA-seq identifies 13 co-expression modules (SC.M1-M13), each representing distinct biological processes or cell types.

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• Gene expression study on peripheral blood identifies progranulin mutations.

  PMID 18551524 · PMC2773201 · Annals of neurology · 2008 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  PGRN is highly expressed in peripheral blood (97th percentile of all array genes)

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• Genome-wide association studies in neurological disorders.

  PMID 18940696 · PMC2824165 · The Lancet. Neurology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  GWAS can identify common genetic variability associated with a trait across the whole genome, avoiding the bias and low throughput of candidate-gene studies

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