Imperial College London
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ProfessorMatthiasMerkenschlager

Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Sciences

Professor of Cell Biology
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 3313 8239matthias.merkenschlager

 
 
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5.11DLMS BuildingHammersmith Campus

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@article{Harmston:2017:10.1038/s41467-017-00524-5,
author = {Harmston, N and Ing-Simmons, E and Tan, G and Perry, M and Merkenschlager, M and Lenhard, B},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-017-00524-5},
journal = {Nature Communications},
title = {Topologically associating domains are ancient features that coincide with Metazoan clusters of extreme noncoding conservation},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00524-5},
volume = {8},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Developmental genes in metazoan genomes are surrounded by dense clusters of conserved noncoding elements (CNEs). CNEs exhibit unexplained extreme levels of sequence conservation, with many acting as developmental long-range enhancers. Clusters of CNEs define the span of regulatory inputs for many important developmental regulators and have been described previously as genomic regulatory blocks (GRBs). Their function and distribution around important regulatory genes raises the question of how they relate to 3D conformation of these loci. Here, we show that clusters of CNEs strongly coincide with topological organisation, predicting the boundaries of hundreds of topologically associating domains (TADs) in human and Drosophila. The set of TADs that are associated with high levels of noncoding conservation exhibit distinct properties compared to TADs devoid of extreme noncoding conservation. The close correspondence between extreme noncoding conservation and TADs suggests that these TADs are ancient, revealing a regulatory architecture conserved over hundreds of millions of years.Metazoan genomes contain many clusters of conserved noncoding elements. Here, the authors provide evidence that these clusters coincide with distinct topologically associating domains in humans and Drosophila, revealing a conserved regulatory genomic architecture.
AU  - Harmston,N
AU  - Ing-Simmons,E
AU  - Tan,G
AU  - Perry,M
AU  - Merkenschlager,M
AU  - Lenhard,B
DO  - 10.1038/s41467-017-00524-5
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 2041-1723
TI  - Topologically associating domains are ancient features that coincide with Metazoan clusters of extreme noncoding conservation
T2  - Nature Communications
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00524-5
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28874668
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/50525
VL  - 8
ER  -
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