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The Hi-Culfite assay reveals relationships between chromatin contacts and DNA methylation state
Elena K. Stamenova, Neva C. Durand, Olga Dudchenko, Muhammad S. Shamim, Su-Chen Huang, Yiqun Jiang, Ivan D. Bochkov, Suhas S. P. Rao, Eric S. Lander, Andreas Gnirke, Erez Lieberman Aiden
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/481283
Elena K. Stamenova
1The Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
2Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
3Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Neva C. Durand
1The Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
2Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
3Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
4Department of Computer Science, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Olga Dudchenko
1The Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
2Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
4Department of Computer Science, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Muhammad S. Shamim
1The Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
2Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
4Department of Computer Science, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
5Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
6Medical Scientist Training Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Su-Chen Huang
1The Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
2Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
4Department of Computer Science, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Yiqun Jiang
1The Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
2Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
7Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Ivan D. Bochkov
1The Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
2Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
4Department of Computer Science, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Suhas S. P. Rao
1The Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
2Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
8Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
Eric S. Lander
3Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
9Department of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
10Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Andreas Gnirke
3Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Erez Lieberman Aiden
1The Center for Genome Architecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
2Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
3Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
4Department of Computer Science, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
11Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77030, USA

Abstract
Hi-Culfite, a protocol combining Hi-C and whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS), determines chromatin contacts and DNA methylation simultaneously. Hi-Culfite also reveals relationships that cannot be seen when the two assays are performed separately. For instance, we show that loci associated with open chromatin exhibit context-sensitive methylation: when their spatial neighbors lie in closed chromatin, they are much more likely to be methylated.
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Posted November 29, 2018.
The Hi-Culfite assay reveals relationships between chromatin contacts and DNA methylation state
Elena K. Stamenova, Neva C. Durand, Olga Dudchenko, Muhammad S. Shamim, Su-Chen Huang, Yiqun Jiang, Ivan D. Bochkov, Suhas S. P. Rao, Eric S. Lander, Andreas Gnirke, Erez Lieberman Aiden
bioRxiv 481283; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/481283
The Hi-Culfite assay reveals relationships between chromatin contacts and DNA methylation state
Elena K. Stamenova, Neva C. Durand, Olga Dudchenko, Muhammad S. Shamim, Su-Chen Huang, Yiqun Jiang, Ivan D. Bochkov, Suhas S. P. Rao, Eric S. Lander, Andreas Gnirke, Erez Lieberman Aiden
bioRxiv 481283; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/481283
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