[PDF][PDF] Hi-C identifies complex genomic rearrangements and TAD-shuffling in developmental diseases

US Melo, R Schöpflin, R Acuna-Hidalgo… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - cell.com
Genome-wide analysis methods, such as array comparative genomic hybridization (CGH)
and whole-genome sequencing (WGS), have greatly advanced the identification of structural …

Polymer physics predicts the effects of structural variants on chromatin architecture

…, AM Chiariello, C Annunziatella, K Kraft, R Schöpflin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Structural variants (SVs) can result in changes in gene expression due to abnormal chromatin
folding and cause disease. However, the prediction of such effects remains a challenge. …

Functional dissection of the Sox9Kcnj2 locus identifies nonessential and instructive roles of TAD architecture

A Despang, R Schöpflin, M Franke, S Ali, I Jerković… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The genome is organized in three-dimensional units called topologically associating domains
(TADs), through a process dependent on the cooperative action of cohesin and the DNA-…

Formation of new chromatin domains determines pathogenicity of genomic duplications

…, G Andrey, W Schwarzer, V Heinrich, R Schöpflin… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Chromosome conformation capture methods have identified subchromosomal structures of
higher-order chromatin interactions called topologically associated domains (TADs) that are …

Non-coding deletions identify Maenli lncRNA as a limb-specific En1 regulator

…, A Magg, M Quinodoz, B Royer-Bertrand, R Schöpflin… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) can be important components in gene-regulatory networks
1 , but the exact nature and extent of their involvement in human Mendelian disease is …

Characterization of hundreds of regulatory landscapes in developing limbs reveals two regimes of chromatin folding

G Andrey, R Schöpflin, I Jerković, V Heinrich… - Genome …, 2017 - genome.cshlp.org
Complex regulatory landscapes control the pleiotropic transcriptional activities of
developmental genes. For most genes, the number, location, and dynamics of their associated …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancer hijacking determines extrachromosomal circular MYCN amplicon architecture in neuroblastoma

…, S Ali, R Chamorro González, R Schöpflin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
MYCN amplification drives one in six cases of neuroblastoma. The supernumerary gene
copies are commonly found on highly rearranged, extrachromosomal circular DNA (ecDNA). …

Dynamic 3D chromatin architecture contributes to enhancer specificity and limb morphogenesis

…, M Spielmann, C Paliou, V Heinrich, R Schöpflin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The regulatory specificity of enhancers and their interaction with gene promoters is thought
to be controlled by their sequence and the binding of transcription factors. By studying Pitx1, …

ecDNA hubs drive cooperative intermolecular oncogene expression

…, L Xie, Q Shi, K Helmsauer, J Luebeck, R Schöpflin… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) is prevalent in human cancers and mediates high expression
of oncogenes through gene amplification and altered gene regulation 1 . Gene induction …

Preformed chromatin topology assists transcriptional robustness of Shh during limb development

C Paliou, P Guckelberger, R Schöpflin… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Long-range gene regulation involves physical proximity between enhancers and promoters
to generate precise patterns of gene expression in space and time. However, in some cases, …