A Long-Distance Chromatin Affair

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2015-08-27

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Denker, Annette
de Laat, WouterISNI 0000000388639337

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Abstract

Changes in transcription factor binding sequences result in correlated changes in chromatin composition locally and at sites hundreds of kilobases away. New studies demonstrate that this concordance is mediated via spatial chromatin interactions that constitute regulatory modules of the human genome.

Keywords

Chromatin, Chromosomes, Human, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Genetic Variation, Genome, Human, Human Genome Project, Humans, Male, Taverne, Comment, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Citation

Denker, A & de Laat, W 2015, 'A Long-Distance Chromatin Affair', Cell, vol. 162, no. 5, pp. 942-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.08.022