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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2018

Quantifying the similarity of topological domains across normal and cancer human cell types.

Natalie Sauerwald, Carl Kingsford

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Machine and Deep Learning Methods for Predicting 3D Genome Organization.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  2. Building Haplotype-Resolved 3D Genome Maps of Chicken Skeletal Muscle.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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  12. A TAD Skeptic: Is 3D Genome Topology Conserved?Trends in genetics : TIG · 2021
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  14. Chromatin Conformation in Development and Disease.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
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  18. The 3D Genome as a Target for Anticancer Therapy.Trends in molecular medicine · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Natalie SauerwaldComputational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Carl KingsfordComputational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Carnegie Mellon University · US

Funding

TrainingP41GM103712 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI FAEDER, JAMES · 2012 to 2021
$16.3M
Algorithms for Managing Uncertainty in Chromosome Conformation Capture DataR01HG007104 · NHGRI · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI KINGSFORD, CARLETON LEE · 2013 to 2015
$1.3M
Data Discovery: Computational Methods for Searching Short-Read Sequencing Experiments - Administrative SupplementR01GM122935 · NIGMS · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI KINGSFORD, CARLETON LEE · 2017 to 2021
$1.2M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG007104NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103712NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM122935
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motivation: Three-dimensional chromosome structure has been increasingly shown to influence various levels of cellular and genomic functions. Through Hi-C data, which maps contact frequency on chromosomes, it has been found that structural elements termed topologically associating domains (TADs) are involved in many regulatory mechanisms. However, we have little understanding of the level of similarity or variability of chromosome structure across cell types and disease states. In this study, we present a method to quantify resemblance and identify structurally similar regions between any two sets of TADs. Results: We present an analysis of 23 human Hi-C samples representing various tissue types in normal and cancer cell lines. We quantify global and chromosome-level structural similarity, and compare the relative similarity between cancer and non-cancer cells. We find that cancer cells show higher structural variability around commonly mutated pan-cancer genes than normal cells at these same locations. Availability and implementation: Software for the methods and analysis can be found at https://github.com/Kingsford-Group/localtadsim.

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SoftwareCell LineCell Line, TumorChromatinChromosomes, HumanGenomicsHumansNeoplasmsSequence Analysis, DNAChromatin

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PMID29949963
PMCPMC6022623
OpenAlexW2808165720

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