A global high-density chromatin interaction network reveals functional long-range and trans-chromosomal relationships

Lohia, Ruchi, Fox, Nathan, Gillis, Jesse (November 2022) A global high-density chromatin interaction network reveals functional long-range and trans-chromosomal relationships. Genome Biology, 23 (1). p. 238. ISSN 1474-760X

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Chromatin contacts are essential for gene-expression regulation; however, obtaining a high-resolution genome-wide chromatin contact map is still prohibitively expensive owing to large genome sizes and the quadratic scale of pairwise data. Chromosome conformation capture (3C)-based methods such as Hi-C have been extensively used to obtain chromatin contacts. However, since the sparsity of these maps increases with an increase in genomic distance between contacts, long-range or trans-chromatin contacts are especially challenging to sample. RESULTS: Here, we create a high-density reference genome-wide chromatin contact map using a meta-analytic approach. We integrate 3600 human, 6700 mouse, and 500 fly Hi-C experiments to create species-specific meta-Hi-C chromatin contact maps with 304 billion, 193 billion, and 19 billion contacts in respective species. We validate that meta-Hi-C contact maps are uniquely powered to capture functional chromatin contacts in both cis and trans. We find that while individual dataset Hi-C networks are largely unable to predict any long-range coexpression (median 0.54 AUC), meta-Hi-C networks perform comparably in both cis and trans (0.65 AUC vs 0.64 AUC). Similarly, for long-range expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL), meta-Hi-C contacts outperform all individual Hi-C experiments, providing an improvement over the conventionally used linear genomic distance-based association. Assessing between species, we find patterns of chromatin contact conservation in both cis and trans and strong associations with coexpression even in species for which Hi-C data is lacking. CONCLUSIONS: We have generated an integrated chromatin interaction network which complements a large number of methodological and analytic approaches focused on improved specificity or interpretation. This high-depth "super-experiment" is surprisingly powerful in capturing long-range functional relationships of chromatin interactions, which are now able to predict coexpression, eQTLs, and cross-species relationships. The meta-Hi-C networks are available at https://labshare.cshl.edu/shares/gillislab/resource/HiC/ .

Item Type: Paper
Subjects: bioinformatics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics
organism description > animal
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > Chromatin dynamics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function > gene expression
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function > gene regulation
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function > gene regulation
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function
organism description > animal > mammal
organism description > animal > mammal > rodent > mouse
organism description > animal > mammal > rodent
CSHL Authors:
Communities: CSHL labs > Gillis Lab
SWORD Depositor: CSHL Elements
Depositing User: CSHL Elements
Date: 9 November 2022
Date Deposited: 15 Nov 2022 20:37
Last Modified: 16 Jan 2024 18:43
PMCID: PMC9647974
URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/40758

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