Long-range enhancer–promoter contacts in gene expression control

S Schoenfelder, P Fraser - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Spatiotemporal gene expression programmes are orchestrated by transcriptional
enhancers, which are key regulatory DNA elements that engage in physical contacts with …

The 4D nucleome project

J Dekker, AS Belmont, M Guttman, VO Leshyk, JT Lis… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The 4D Nucleome Network aims to develop and apply approaches to map the
structure and dynamics of the human and mouse genomes in space and time with the goal …

A compendium of promoter-centered long-range chromatin interactions in the human genome

I Jung, A Schmitt, Y Diao, AJ Lee, T Liu, D Yang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
A large number of putative cis-regulatory sequences have been annotated in the human
genome, but the genes they control remain poorly defined. To bridge this gap, we generate …

Lineage-specific genome architecture links enhancers and non-coding disease variants to target gene promoters

BM Javierre, OS Burren, SP Wilder, R Kreuzhuber… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Long-range interactions between regulatory elements and gene promoters play key roles in
transcriptional regulation. The vast majority of interactions are uncharted, constituting a …

[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
The three-dimensional configuration of DNA is integral to all nuclear processes in
eukaryotes, yet our knowledge of the chromosome architecture is still limited. Genome-wide …

Galaxy HiCExplorer 3: a web server for reproducible Hi-C, capture Hi-C and single-cell Hi-C data analysis, quality control and visualization

J Wolff, L Rabbani, R Gilsbach, G Richard… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Galaxy HiCExplorer provides a web service at https://hicexplorer. usegalaxy.
eu. It enables the integrative analysis of chromosome conformation by providing tools and …

Genome-wide association studies of cancer: current insights and future perspectives

A Sud, B Kinnersley, RS Houlston - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide an agnostic approach for investigating
the genetic basis of complex diseases. In oncology, GWAS of nearly all common …

Mapping long-range promoter contacts in human cells with high-resolution capture Hi-C

B Mifsud, F Tavares-Cadete, AN Young, R Sugar… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Transcriptional control in large genomes often requires looping interactions between distal
DNA elements, such as enhancers and target promoters. Current chromosome conformation …

The role of regulatory variation in complex traits and disease

FW Albert, L Kruglyak - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
We are in a phase of unprecedented progress in identifying genetic loci that cause variation
in traits ranging from growth and fitness in simple organisms to disease in humans …

[HTML][HTML] HiCUP: pipeline for mapping and processing Hi-C data

S Wingett, P Ewels, M Furlan-Magaril, T Nagano… - …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
HiCUP is a pipeline for processing sequence data generated by Hi-C and Capture Hi-C
(CHi-C) experiments, which are techniques used to investigate three-dimensional genomic …