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ReviewMolecular cell2016

Chromatin Domains: The Unit of Chromosome Organization.

Jesse R Dixon, David U Gorkin, Bing Ren

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Molecular cell, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 457 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
457citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

457 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  9. Exhausted CD8Nature immunology · 2026
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  13. Genome-wide absolute quantification of chromatin looping.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026
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  14. Haplotype-Resolved 3D Genomic Landscapes and Their Impacts on Agronomic Traits in Grapevine.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  18. PDS5A and TOP2B cooperate for chromatin recruitment via CTCF.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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397 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jesse R DixonPeptide Biology Lab and the Helmsley Center for Genomic Medicine, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Electronic address: jedixon@salk.edu.
David U GorkinLudwig Institute for Cancer Research, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0653, USA.
Bing RenLudwig Institute for Cancer Research, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0653, USA; University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Genomic Medicine, and Moores Cancer Center, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0653, USA. Electronic address: biren@ucsd.edu.

Funding

Viral Vector Core (VVC)P30CA014195 · NCI · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI Ye Zheng · 1985 to 2026
$82.8M
UCSD/SDSU IRACDAK12GM068524 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI TREJO, JOANN · 2003 to 2025
$24.4M
SYNTHETIC SYSTEMSP50GM085764 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HASTY, JEFF M, IDEKER, TREY · 2010 to 2018
$23.3M
Center for Mammalian Regulatory GenomicsU54HG006997 · NHGRI · LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES LTD · PI REN, BING · 2012 to 2016
$14.3M
San Diego Center for 4D Nucleome ResearchU54DK107977 · NIDDK · LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES LTD · PI REN, BING · 2015 to 2019
$9.4M
Integrative Analysis of Haplotype-Resolved Human Epigenome MapsR01ES024984 · NIEHS · LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES LTD · PI REN, BING · 2014 to 2016
$780k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014195NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG006997NIDDK NIH HHS U54 DK107977NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES024984NIGMS NIH HHS K12 GM068524NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM085764
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How eukaryotic chromosomes fold inside the nucleus is an age-old question that remains unanswered today. Early biochemical and microscopic studies revealed the existence of chromatin domains and loops as a pervasive feature of interphase chromosomes, but the biological implications of such organizational features were obscure. Genome-wide analysis of pair-wise chromatin interactions using chromatin conformation capture (3C)-based techniques has shed new light on the organization of chromosomes in interphase nuclei. Particularly, the finding of cell-type invariant, evolutionarily conserved topologically associating domains (TADs) in a broad spectrum of cell types has provided a new molecular framework for the study of animal development and human diseases. Here, we review recent progress in characterization of such chromatin domains and delineation of mechanisms of their formation in animal cells.

Indexed as

Chromatin Assembly and DisassemblyGenomeInterphaseAnimalsCell NucleusChromatinChromosomesGene Expression RegulationGenomicsHumansNucleic Acid ConformationProtein ConformationStructure-Activity RelationshipChromatin

Identifiers

PMID27259200
PMCPMC5371509

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