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ReviewPLoS genetics2015

Minor Loops in Major Folds: Enhancer-Promoter Looping, Chromatin Restructuring, and Their Association with Transcriptional Regulation and Disease.

Navneet Matharu, Nadav Ahituv

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Review in PLoS genetics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Genetics of familial acromegaly and pituitary gigantism.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2026
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  5. Interplay Between 3D Chromatin Architecture and Gene Regulation at theInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  18. Modulating gene regulation to treat genetic disorders.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Navneet MatharuDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
Nadav AhituvDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America.

Funding

PHARMACOGENETICS OF MEMBRANE TRANSPORTERSU01GM061390 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI GIACOMINI, KATHLEEN M · 2000 to 2009
$29.2M
Pharmacogenomics of Membrane TransportersU19GM061390 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI WITTE, JOHN S. · 2010 to 2014
$16.3M
UCSF Nutrition Obesity Research CenterP30DK098722 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CHRISTIAN VAISSE · 2015 to 2026
$14.6M
Integrative interpretation of the organismal consequences of non-coding variationR01CA197139 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI COOPER, GREGORY MICHAEL, SHENDURE, JAY ASHOK · 2015 to 2017
$1.9M
Massively parallel, in vivo functional testing of regulatory elementsR01HG006768 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI AHITUV, NADAV, SHENDURE, JAY ASHOK · 2012 to 2014
$1.8M
Identification & functional characterization of SIM1 obesity-associated variantsR01DK090382 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI AHITUV, NADAV, VAISSE, CHRISTIAN · 2012 to 2015
$1.3M
Characterization of neuronal gene regulatory elements associated with epilepsyR01NS079231 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI AHITUV, NADAV · 2012 to 2015
$1.2M
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The organization and folding of chromatin within the nucleus can determine the outcome of gene expression. Recent technological advancements have enabled us to study chromatin interactions in a genome-wide manner at high resolution. These studies have increased our understanding of the hierarchy and dynamics of chromatin domains that facilitate cognate enhancer-promoter looping, defining the transcriptional program of different cell types. In this review, we focus on vertebrate chromatin long-range interactions as they relate to transcriptional regulation. In addition, we describe how the alteration of boundaries that mark discrete regions in the genome with high interaction frequencies within them, called topological associated domains (TADs), could lead to various phenotypes, including human diseases, which we term as "TADopathies."

Indexed as

Enhancer Elements, GeneticPromoter Regions, GeneticTranscription, GeneticAnimalsChromatinChromatin Assembly and DisassemblyGene Expression RegulationHumansMammalsChromatin

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PMID26632825
PMCPMC4669122

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