Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Dissecting super-enhancer hierarchy based on chromatin interactions

  • Jialiang Huang,
  • Kailong Li,
  • Wenqing Cai,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Yuannyu Zhang,
  • Stuart H. Orkin,
  • Jian Xu,
  • Guo-Cheng Yuan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03279-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Super-enhancers (SEs) are important regulatory elements for gene expression, but their intrinsic properties remain poorly understood. Here the authors analyse Hi-C and ChIP-seq data and find that a significant fraction of SEs are hierarchically organized, containing both hub and non-hub enhancers.