Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

3D genome of multiple myeloma reveals spatial genome disorganization associated with copy number variations

  • Pengze Wu,
  • Tingting Li,
  • Ruifeng Li,
  • Lumeng Jia,
  • Ping Zhu,
  • Yifang Liu,
  • Qing Chen,
  • Daiwei Tang,
  • Yuezhou Yu,
  • Cheng Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01793-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Chromosome conformation capture techniques enable the study of genome organization in cancer cells. Here, the authors use Hi-C, WGS, and RNA-seq to study the 3D genome of multiple myeloma and find that genome disorganization is associated with copy number variations and changes in gene expression.