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MDPI, Genes, 4(13), p. 586, 2022

DOI: 10.3390/genes13040586

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Understanding Regulatory Mechanisms of Brain Function and Disease through 3D Genome Organization

Journal article published in 2022 by Weifang Liu ORCID, Wujuan Zhong ORCID, Jiawen Chen, Bo Huang ORCID, Ming Hu ORCID, Yun Li
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The human genome has a complex and dynamic three-dimensional (3D) organization, which plays a critical role for gene regulation and genome function. The importance of 3D genome organization in brain development and function has been well characterized in a region- and cell-type-specific fashion. Recent technological advances in chromosome conformation capture (3C)-based techniques, imaging approaches, and ligation-free methods, along with computational methods to analyze the data generated, have revealed 3D genome features at different scales in the brain that contribute to our understanding of genetic mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric diseases and other brain-related traits. In this review, we discuss how these advances aid in the genetic dissection of brain-related traits.