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ReviewAnnual review of cell and developmental biology2021

Spatial Organization of Chromatin: Emergence of Chromatin Structure During Development.

Rajarshi P Ghosh, Barbara J Meyer

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Review in Annual review of cell and developmental biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
37citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Liquid-liquid phase separation in neural development.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2026
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  10. CWL-Based Analysis Pipeline for Hi-C Data: From FASTQ Files to Matrices.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  11. Chromosomal Instability and Chromoanagenesis as Forces for Genomic Evolution.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rajarshi P GhoshDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA; email: rpghosh@berkeley.edu, bjmeyer@berkeley.edu.
Barbara J MeyerDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA; email: rpghosh@berkeley.edu, bjmeyer@berkeley.edu.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Analysis of Nematode Sex Determination and Dosage CompensationR35GM131845 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI MEYER, BARBARA J · 2019 to 2023
$2.3M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131845
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nuclei are central hubs for information processing in eukaryotic cells. The need to fit large genomes into small nuclei imposes severe restrictions on genome organization and the mechanisms that drive genome-wide regulatory processes. How a disordered polymer such as chromatin, which has vast heterogeneity in its DNA and histone modification profiles, folds into discernibly consistent patterns is a fundamental question in biology. Outstanding questions include how genomes are spatially and temporally organized to regulate cellular processes with high precision and whether genome organization is causally linked to transcription regulation. The advent of next-generation sequencing, super-resolution imaging, multiplexed fluorescent in situ hybridization, and single-molecule imaging in individual living cells has caused a resurgence in efforts to understand the spatiotemporal organization of the genome. In this review, we discuss structural and mechanistic properties of genome organization at different length scales and examine changes in higher-order chromatin organization during important developmental transitions.

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ChromatinChromosomesDNAGenomeIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceChromatinDNAchromosome topologycohesin and condensin complexesgametogenesisloop extrusionneural developmentphase separationzygotic genome activation

Identifiers

PMID34228506
PMCPMC8664233
OpenAlexW3180235698

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Registered trials

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