Orientation-aware plasma cell-free DNA fragmentation analysis in open chromatin regions informs tissue of origin

K Sun, P Jiang, SH Cheng, THT Cheng… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
… of fragmentation pattern analyses in inferring the tissue origin of cfDNA. However, …
tissue-specific open chromatin regions would carry information that allows one to infer the tissue

Cell-of-origin chromatin organization shapes the mutational landscape of cancer

P Polak, R Karlić, A Koren, R Thurman, R Sandstrom… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
… To rigorously quantify the contribution of different chromatin marks and gene expression
to regional mutation density, and the extent of cell type specificity, we used Random Forest …

Tissue of origin determines cancer-associated CpG island promoter hypermethylation patterns

D Sproul, RR Kitchen, CE Nestor, JM Dixon, AH Sims… - Genome biology, 2012 - Springer
… that are normally repressed in a tissue are prone to hypermethylation in cancers derived
from that tissue. We also show that the promoter regions of hypermethylation-prone genes are …

Chromatin accessibility identifies diversity in mesenchymal stem cells from different tissue origins

YT Ho, T Shimbo, E Wijaya, Y Ouchi, E Takaki… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
… To obtain information regarding open chromatin regions, we analysed densely-sequenced
regions (which represent open chromatin regions) by performing peak call analysis using …

The chromatin environment shapes DNA replication origin organization and defines origin classes

C Cayrou, B Ballester, I Peiffer, R Fenouil… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
origins are the most efficient and are associated with open chromatin and polycomb
protein-enriched regions… classes of origins were associated with specific sets of chromatin

The structure and assembly of active chromatin

J Svaren, R Chalkley - Trends in Genetics, 1990 - Elsevier
… When a DNA replication fork proceeds through a region of chromatin, nucleosomes are … ,
that some tissue-specific hypersensitive sites may contain tissue-specific origins of replication …

Chromatin accessibility of primary human cancers ties regional mutational processes and signatures with tissues of origin

O Ocsenas, J Reimand - PLOS Computational Biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
… observations are based on normal tissues and cell lines while … tissues, and cell lines. CA
profiles of primary cancers, rather than those of normal tissues, are most predictive of regional

The activities of eukaryotic replication origins in chromatin

M Weinreich, MAP DeBeer, CA Fox - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2004 - Elsevier
origins have acquired roles in controlling chromatin structure and/or gene expression. These
roles are not linked obligatorily to replication origin … state in this region. Because of the …

Tissue-specific DNA cleavages in the globin chromatin domain introduced by DNAase I

J Stalder, A Larsen, JD Engel, M Dolan, M Groudine… - Cell, 1980 - cell.com
… of the chromatin that are associated with origins for … chromatin regions comes from analogous
observations with the SV40 minichromosome. Here the general region around the origin

[HTML][HTML] A compendium of chromatin contact maps reveals spatially active regions in the human genome

AD Schmitt, M Hu, I Jung, Z Xu, Y Qiu, CL Tan, Y Li… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
chromatin contact maps in 21 primary human tissues and cell types, we find topologically
associating domains highly conserved in different tissues… the germ layer origin for tissues (right …