Single-nucleus Hi-C reveals unique chromatin reorganization at oocyte-to-zygote transition

IM Flyamer, J Gassler, M Imakaev, HB Brandão… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Chromatin is reprogrammed after fertilization to produce a totipotent zygote with the potential
to generate a new organism. The maternal genome inherited from the oocyte and the …

Structural variants drive context-dependent oncogene activation in cancer

Z Xu, DS Lee, S Chandran, VT Le, R Bump, J Yasis… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Higher-order chromatin structure is important for the regulation of genes by distal regulatory
sequences,. Structural variants (SVs) that alter three-dimensional (3D) genome organization …

Integrative detection and analysis of structural variation in cancer genomes

JR Dixon, J Xu, V Dileep, Y Zhan, F Song, VT Le… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Structural variants (SVs) can contribute to oncogenesis through a variety of mechanisms.
Despite their importance, the identification of SVs in cancer genomes remains challenging …

The embryonic stress response to in vitro culture: insight from genomic analysis

G Cagnone, MA Sirard - Reproduction, 2016 - rep.bioscientifica.com
Recent genomic studies have shed light on the impact of in vitro culture (IVC) on embryonic
homeostasis and the differential gene expression profiles associated with lower …

Novel insights into chromosomal conformations in cancer

R Jia, P Chai, H Zhang, X Fan - Molecular cancer, 2017 - Springer
Exploring gene function is critical for understanding the complexity of life. DNA sequences
and the three-dimensional organization of chromatin (chromosomal interactions) are …

Predicting DNA methylation state of CpG dinucleotide using genome topological features and deep networks

Y Wang, T Liu, D Xu, H Shi, C Zhang, YY Mo… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The hypo-or hyper-methylation of the human genome is one of the epigenetic features of
leukemia. However, experimental approaches have only determined the methylation state of …

Integrated protein function prediction by mining function associations, sequences, and protein–protein and gene–gene interaction networks

R Cao, J Cheng - Methods, 2016 - Elsevier
Motivations Protein function prediction is an important and challenging problem in
bioinformatics and computational biology. Functionally relevant biological information such …

A graph neural network-based interpretable framework reveals a novel DNA fragility–associated chromatin structural unit

Y Sun, X Xu, L Lin, K Xu, Y Zheng, C Ren, H Tao… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are among the most deleterious DNA
lesions, and they can cause cancer if improperly repaired. Recent chromosome …

Large-scale reconstruction of 3D structures of human chromosomes from chromosomal contact data

T Trieu, J Cheng - Nucleic acids research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Chromosomes are not positioned randomly within a nucleus, but instead, they adopt
preferred spatial conformations to facilitate necessary long-range gene–gene interactions …

A maximum likelihood algorithm for reconstructing 3D structures of human chromosomes from chromosomal contact data

O Oluwadare, Y Zhang, J Cheng - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background The development of chromosomal conformation capture techniques,
particularly, the Hi-C technique, has made the analysis and study of the spatial conformation …