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Nature Genetics 38, 1348–1354 (1 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/ng1896

Nuclear organization of active and inactive chromatin domains uncovered by chromosome conformation capture|[ndash]|on-chip (4C)

Marieke Simonis , Petra Klous , Erik Splinter , Yuri Moshkin , Rob Willemsen , Elzo de Wit , Bas van Steensel & Wouter de Laat

The spatial organization of DNA in the cell nucleus is an emerging key contributor to genomic function. We developed 4C technology (chromosome conformation capture (3C)-on-chip), which allows for an unbiased genome-wide search for DNA loci that contact a given locus in the nuclear space.