Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Integration of Hi-C with short and long-read genome sequencing reveals the structure of germline rearranged genomes

  • Robert Schöpflin,
  • Uirá Souto Melo,
  • Hossein Moeinzadeh,
  • David Heller,
  • Verena Laupert,
  • Jakob Hertzberg,
  • Manuel Holtgrewe,
  • Nico Alavi,
  • Marius-Konstantin Klever,
  • Julius Jungnitsch,
  • Emel Comak,
  • Seval Türkmen,
  • Denise Horn,
  • Yannis Duffourd,
  • Laurence Faivre,
  • Patrick Callier,
  • Damien Sanlaville,
  • Orsetta Zuffardi,
  • Romano Tenconi,
  • Nehir Edibe Kurtas,
  • Sabrina Giglio,
  • Bettina Prager,
  • Anna Latos-Bielenska,
  • Ida Vogel,
  • Merete Bugge,
  • Niels Tommerup,
  • Malte Spielmann,
  • Antonio Vitobello,
  • Vera M. Kalscheuer,
  • Martin Vingron,
  • Stefan Mundlos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34053-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Here the authors characterize structural variations (SVs) in a cohort of individuals with complex genomic rearrangements, identifying breakpoints by employing short- and long-read genome sequencing and investigate their impact on gene expression and the three-dimensional chromatin architecture. They find breakpoints are enriched in inactive regions and can result in chromatin domain fusions.