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PLAC-Seq

Proximity ligation-assisted chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (PLAC-seq) is a chromatin conformation capture(3C)-based technique to detect and quantify genomic chromatin structure from a protein-centric approach. PLAC-seq combines in situ Hi-C and chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), which allows for the identification of long-range chromatin interactions at a high resolution with low sequencing costs. Mapping long-range 3-dimensional(3D) chromatin interactions is important in identifying transcription enhancers and non-coding variants that can be linked to human diseases. Different 3C-based techniques have been used to study the higher-order 3D chromatin structure, and it has been combined with high-throughput sequencing to determine the chromatin structure on a genome-wide level. Hi-C is one of the most widely used 3C-based techniques because it allows for high-resolution (kilobase-scale) genome-topology identification. However, it requires billions of sequencing reads which has limited its application. Another commonly used 3C-based technique is chromatin interaction analysis by paired-end tag sequencing (ChiA-PET). ChiA-PET can identify long-range interactions of transcription promoters and enhancers at a high resolution but requires millions of cells.…

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Proximity ligation-assisted chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (PLAC-seq) is a chromatin conformation capture(3C)-based technique to detect and quantify genomic chromatin structure from a protein-centric approach. PLAC-seq combines in situ Hi-C and chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), which allows for the identification of long-range chromatin interactions at a high resolution with low sequencing costs. Mapping long-range 3-dimensional(3D) chromatin interactions is important in identifying transcription enhancers and non-coding variants that can be linked to human diseases. Different 3C-based techniques have been used to study the higher-order 3D chromatin structure, and it has been combined with high-throughput sequencing to determine the chromatin structure on a genome-wide level. Hi-C is one of the most widely used 3C-based techniques because it allows for high-resolution (kilobase-scale) genome-topology identification. However, it requires billions of sequencing reads which has limited its application. Another commonly used 3C-based technique is chromatin interaction analysis by paired-end tag sequencing (ChiA-PET). ChiA-PET can identify long-range interactions of transcription promoters and enhancers at a high resolution but requires millions of cells.…

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