Reconstructing A/B compartments as revealed by Hi-C using long-range correlations in epigenetic data
Genome Biol, (August 2015)DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0741-y
Abstract
Analysis of Hi-C data has shown that the genome can be divided into two compartments called A/B compartments. These compartments are cell-type specific and are associated with open and closed chromatin. We show that A/B compartments can reliably be estimated using epigenetic data from several different platforms: the Illumina 450 k DNA methylation microarray, DNase hypersensitivity sequencing, single-cell ATAC sequencing and single-cell whole-genome bisulfite sequencing. We do this by exploiting that the structure of long-range correlations differs between open and closed compartments. This work makes A/B compartment assignment readily available in a wide variety of cell types, including many human cancers.
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Reconstructing A/B compartments as revealed by Hi-C using long-range correlations in epigenetic data. - PubMed - NCBI