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Computational analysis of genome architecture
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Investigation into the organization of cell nucleus has been a longstanding topic of intense interests. With the development of microscopy and genomics technology, it has been shown that three-dimensional genome architecture within nucleus tremendously affects gene function and cell property. The underlying component of genome architecture is chromatin interactions that occur at the genome-wide scale. The specific long-range genomic segments contacts are achieved by chromatin looping and mostly are between enhancer and promoter, leading to well-regulated gene expression patterns. With the development of high throughput sequencing technologies, the priority of nuclear organization study has transitioned from microscopy to genomic approaches, and a couple of schemes have been developed to map the genome-wide chromatin interactions. ❧ In the dissertation, I introduce the analysis of circularized chromosome conformation capture coupled with next-generation sequencing (4C-Seq), which is developed to assess the long-range DNA-DNA interactions where one of the DNA segments is the locus of interest. I present a computational pipeline to analyze 4C-Seq data in an automated and user-friendly way. In addition, 4C-Seq is applied to interrogate functional interactions with a risk enhancer at 8q24 locus in human prostate cancer, and to identify high-fidelity interactions with a distal enhancer of Oct4 that is a key pluripotent gene in mouse pluripotent stem cells. Furthermore, 4C-Seq and an emerging approach named capture-C are employed to study significant genome architecture mediated by a long non-coding RNA, 5430416N02Rik. Besides, the analysis of other techniques based on next-generation sequencing is shown throughout the dissertation. These methods include ChIP-Seq to identify DNA-protein interactions, RIP-Seq to study RNA-protein interactions, RNA-Seq to examine gene expression levels, and Hi-C to assess DNA-DNA interactions between each pair of genomic regions across genome. These methods combine to provide us with a comprehensive map as to how physical interactions underlying genome architecture affect biological properties. ❧ The dissertation focuses on presenting the computational methods for analyzing datasets of 4C-Seq and other next-generation sequencing techniques. Meanwhile, the dissertation shows results of projects aimed to study genomic interactions with some functional element implicated in a phenotype, such as pluripotency or cancer. The methodologies and applications might provide insight into unveiling hidden signatures behind genome architecture.
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Creator
Cai, Mingyang
(author)
Core Title
Computational analysis of genome architecture
School
Keck School of Medicine
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Degree Program
Biostatistics
Publication Date
11/06/2018
Defense Date
09/28/2017
Publisher
University of Southern California
(original),
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Tag
cancer,chromatin interactions,genome architecture,next-generation sequencing,OAI-PMH Harvest,pipeline,pluripotency,Visualization
Language
English
Contributor
Electronically uploaded by the author
(provenance)
Advisor
Siegmund, Kimberly (
committee chair
), Lu, Wange (
committee member
), Mi, Huaiyu (
committee member
)
Creator Email
caim@usc.edu,caimingyang08nju@gmail.com
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https://doi.org/10.25549/usctheses-c40-452464
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UC11263847
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452464
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Dissertation
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USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 2810, 3434 South Grand Avenue, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, California 90089-2810, USA
Tags
chromatin interactions
genome architecture
next-generation sequencing
pipeline
pluripotency