Nature Communications (May 2021)

Pancreatic cancer prognosis is predicted by an ATAC-array technology for assessing chromatin accessibility

  • S. Dhara,
  • S. Chhangawala,
  • H. Chintalapudi,
  • G. Askan,
  • V. Aveson,
  • A. L. Massa,
  • L. Zhang,
  • D. Torres,
  • A. P. Makohon-Moore,
  • N. Lecomte,
  • J. P. Melchor,
  • J. Bermeo,
  • A. Cardenas,
  • S. Sinha,
  • D. Glassman,
  • R. Nicolle,
  • R. Moffitt,
  • K. H. Yu,
  • S. Leppanen,
  • S. Laderman,
  • B. Curry,
  • J. Gui,
  • V. P. Balachandran,
  • C. Iacobuzio-Donahue,
  • R. Chandwani,
  • C. S. Leslie,
  • S. D. Leach

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23237-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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ATAC-seq allows for the investigation of chromatin accessibility, a feature which can have important implications for gene regulation. Here the authors present ATAC-array to assess accessibility in human tumours and based on this predict disease prognosis.