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ReviewAnnual review of biochemistry2009

Genome-wide views of chromatin structure.

Oliver J Rando, Howard Y Chang

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Review in Annual review of biochemistry, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 182 papers.

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182citing papers in PubMed
18.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

182 citing papers in PubMed, 334 citations in OpenAlex.

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122 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Oliver J RandoDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA. Oliver.Rando@umassmed.edu
Howard Y Chang
Stanford University · USUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · US

Funding

Genomic analysis of histone replacement dynamics in yeastR01GM079205 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI RANDO, OLIVER J · 2008 to 2016
$3.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM079205
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eukaryotic genomes are packaged into a nucleoprotein complex known as chromatin, which affects most processes that occur on DNA. Along with genetic and biochemical studies of resident chromatin proteins and their modifying enzymes, mapping of chromatin structure in vivo is one of the main pillars in our understanding of how chromatin relates to cellular processes. In this review, we discuss the use of genomic technologies to characterize chromatin structure in vivo, with a focus on data from budding yeast and humans. The picture emerging from these studies is the detailed chromatin structure of a typical gene, where the typical behavior gives insight into the mechanisms and deep rules that establish chromatin structure. Important deviation from the archetype is also observed, usually as a consequence of unique regulatory mechanisms at special genomic loci. Chromatin structure shows substantial conservation from yeast to humans, but mammalian chromatin has additional layers of complexity that likely relate to the requirements of multicellularity such as the need to establish faithful gene regulatory mechanisms for cell differentiation.

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GenomeAnimalsChromatinChromatin Assembly and DisassemblyGene ExpressionGenome, HumanHumansSaccharomyces cerevisiaeChromatin

Identifiers

PMID19317649
PMCPMC2811691
OpenAlexW2140301715

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