Chromatin Domains Go on Repeat in Disease.

Bruneau, Benoit G; Nora, Elphège P · Cell · 2018

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Abstract

TAD boundaries are insulators of genomic neighborhoods. In this issue, Sun et al. show that disease-associated tandem repeats are located to TAD boundaries and affect their insulation. The findings have important implications for TAD function and mechanisms underlying diseases such as fragile X syndrome and Huntington's disease.

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