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3D Multicolor DNA FISH Tool to Study Nuclear Architecture in Human Primary Cells
Published on: January 25, 2020
Predicting the spatial organization of chromosomes using epigenetic data
Raphaël Mourad1, Olivier Cuvier2
1Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Eukaryotes (LBME), CNRS - University of Toulouse (UPS), F-31000, Toulouse, France.
Abstract:
Chromosome folding can reinforce the demarcation between euchromatin and heterochromatin. Two new studies show how epigenetic data, including DNA methylation, can accurately predict chromosome folding in three dimensions. Such computational approaches reinforce the idea of a linkage between epigenetically marked chromatin domains and their segregation into distinct compartments at the megabase scale or topological domains at a higher resolution. Please see related articles: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-015-0741-y and http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-015-0740-z.
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