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Capturing Chromosome Conformation Across Length Scales
Published on: January 20, 2023
Massively multiplex single-cell Hi-C
Vijay Ramani1, Xinxian Deng2, Ruolan Qiu1
1Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Abstract:
We present single-cell combinatorial indexed Hi-C (sciHi-C), a method that applies combinatorial cellular indexing to chromosome conformation capture. In this proof of concept, we generate and sequence six sciHi-C libraries comprising a total of 10,696 single cells. We use sciHi-C data to separate cells by karyotypic and cell-cycle state differences and identify cell-to-cell heterogeneity in mammalian chromosomal conformation. Our results demonstrate that combinatorial indexing is a generalizable strategy for single-cell genomics.

