title: Bayesian inference of spatial organizations of chromosomes.
abstract: Knowledge of spatial chromosomal organizations is critical for the study of transcriptional regulation and other nuclear processes in the cell. Recently, chromosome conformation capture (3C) based technologies, such as Hi-C and TCC, have been developed to provide a genome-wide, three-dimensional (3D) view of chromatin organization. Appropriate methods for analyzing these data and fully characterizing the 3D chromosomal structure and its structural variations are still under development. Here we describe a novel Bayesian probabilistic approach, denoted as "Bayesian 3D constructor for Hi-C data" (BACH), to infer the consensus 3D chromosomal structure. In addition, we describe a variant algorithm BACH-MIX to study the structural variations of chromatin in a cell population. Applying BACH and BACH-MIX to a high resolution Hi-C dataset generated from mouse embryonic stem cells, we found that most local genomic regions exhibit homogeneous 3D chromosomal structures. We further constructed a model for the spatial arrangement of chromatin, which reveals structural properties associated with euchromatic and heterochromatic regions in the genome. We observed strong associations between structural properties and several genomic and epigenetic features of the chromosome. Using BACH-MIX, we further found that the structural variations of chromatin are correlated with these genomic and epigenetic features. Our results demonstrate that BACH and BACH-MIX have the potential to provide new insights into the chromosomal architecture of mammalian cells.
authors: Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors: Ming
authors: M
authors: Hu
authors: Ke
authors: K
authors: Deng
authors: Zhaohui
authors: Z
authors: Qin
authors: Jesse
authors: J
authors: Dixon
authors: Siddarth
authors: S
authors: Selvaraj
authors: Jennifer
authors: J
authors: Fang
authors: Bing
authors: B
authors: Ren
authors: Jun S
authors: JS
authors: Liu
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D002875:Chromosomes; D053595:Embryonic Stem Cells / Q000648:ultrastructure; D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic; D023281:Genomics; D051379:Mice; D008962:Models, Theoretical
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