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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2022

A Polymer Physics Model to Dissect Genome Organization in Healthy and Pathological Phenotypes.

Mattia Conte, Luca Fiorillo, Simona Bianco, Andrea M Chiariello, Andrea Esposito, Francesco Musella, Francesco Flora, Alex Abraham, Mario Nicodemi

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Mattia Conte *Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, and INFN Napoli, Complesso di Monte Sant'Angelo, Naples, Italy.
Luca Fiorillo *Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, and INFN Napoli, Complesso di Monte Sant'Angelo, Naples, Italy.
Simona Bianco *Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, and INFN Napoli, Complesso di Monte Sant'Angelo, Naples, Italy.
Andrea M ChiarielloDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, and INFN Napoli, Complesso di Monte Sant'Angelo, Naples, Italy.
Andrea EspositoDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, and INFN Napoli, Complesso di Monte Sant'Angelo, Naples, Italy.
Francesco MusellaDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, and INFN Napoli, Complesso di Monte Sant'Angelo, Naples, Italy.
Francesco FloraDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, and INFN Napoli, Complesso di Monte Sant'Angelo, Naples, Italy.
Alex AbrahamDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, and INFN Napoli, Complesso di Monte Sant'Angelo, Naples, Italy.
Mario NicodemiDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, and INFN Napoli, Complesso di Monte Sant'Angelo, Naples, Italy. mario.nicodemi@na.infn.it.
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Novel technologies revealed a nontrivial spatial organization of the chromosomes within the cell nucleus, which includes different levels of compartmentalization and architectural patterns. Notably, such complex three-dimensional structure plays a crucial role in vital biological functions and its alterations can produce extensive rewiring of genomic regulatory regions, thus leading to gene misexpression and disease. Here, we show that theoretical and computational approaches, based on polymer physics, can be employed to dissect chromatin contacts in three-dimensional space and to predict the effects of pathogenic structural variants on the genome architecture. In particular, we discuss the folding of the human EPHA4 and the murine Pitx1 loci as case studies.

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ChromatinPhenotypeAnimalsChromosomesHumansMicePhysicsPolymersChromatinPolymersGenome organizationPathological phenotypePolymer physicsPredictive modelsStructural variants

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PMID34415543
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