Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Longitudinal assessment of neuronal 3D genomes in mouse prefrontal cortex

  • Amanda C. Mitchell,
  • Behnam Javidfar,
  • Lucy K. Bicks,
  • Rachael Neve,
  • Krassimira Garbett,
  • Sharon S. Lander,
  • Karoly Mirnics,
  • Hirofumi Morishita,
  • Marcelo A. Wood,
  • Yan Jiang,
  • Inna Gaisler-Salomon,
  • Schahram Akbarian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12743
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Chromosome conformation is a dynamic process, especially in brain. Here, Mitchell and colleagues devise a method they call NeuroDam that can prospectively tag chromosome conformation in the mouse brain in vivo, and longitudinally assess long range chromosome looping weeks and months later.