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Comparison of Hi-C results using in-solution versus in-nucleus ligation

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Biology, August 2015
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Title
Comparison of Hi-C results using in-solution versus in-nucleus ligation
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Genome Biology, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13059-015-0753-7
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Takashi Nagano, Csilla Várnai, Stefan Schoenfelder, Biola-Maria Javierre, Steven W. Wingett, Peter Fraser

Abstract

Chromosome conformation capture and various derivative methods such as 4C, 5C and Hi-C have emerged as standard tools to analyze the three-dimensional organization of the genome in the nucleus. These methods employ ligation of diluted cross-linked chromatin complexes, intended to favour proximity-dependent, intra-complex ligation. During development of single-cell Hi-C, we devised an alternative Hi-C protocol with ligation in preserved nuclei rather than in solution. Here we directly compare Hi-C methods employing in-nucleus ligation with the standard in-solution ligation. We show in-nucleus ligation results in consistently lower levels of inter-chromosomal contacts. Through chromatin mixing experiments we show that a significantly large fraction of inter-chromosomal contacts are the result of spurious ligation events formed during in-solution ligation. In-nucleus ligation significantly reduces this source of experimental noise, and results in improved reproducibility between replicates. We also find that in-nucleus ligation eliminates restriction fragment length bias found with in-solution ligation. These improvements result in greater reproducibility of long-range intra-chromosomal and inter-chromosomal contacts, as well as enhanced detection of structural features such as topologically associated domain boundaries. We conclude that in-nucleus ligation captures chromatin interactions more consistently over a wider range of distances, and significantly reduces both experimental noise and bias. In-nucleus ligation creates higher quality Hi-C libraries while simplifying the experimental procedure. We suggest that the entire range of 3C applications are likely to show similar benefits from in-nucleus ligation.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 1%
United States 2 <1%
Norway 2 <1%
France 1 <1%
Lithuania 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 275 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 81 28%
Researcher 63 22%
Student > Bachelor 26 9%
Student > Master 23 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 5%
Other 44 15%
Unknown 38 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 110 38%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 94 32%
Computer Science 15 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 3%
Chemistry 5 2%
Other 16 6%
Unknown 40 14%
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