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. 2012 Jun 6;3(7):483–486. doi: 10.1007/s13238-012-2806-y

Higher-order genomic organization in pluripotent stem cells

Ping Wang 1, Weiqi Zhang 1, Jiping Yang 1, Jing Qu 1,✉, Guang-Hui Liu 1,✉
PMCID: PMC4875389  PMID: 22673779

Abstract

Recent applications of new tools for genome-wide mapping of long-range and spatial interactions have shed light onto the fundamental mechanisms of three dimensional chromatin organizations in pluripotent stem cells and their derivatives.

Footnotes

These authors contributed equally to the work.

Contributor Information

Jing Qu, Email: jqu@salk.edu.

Guang-Hui Liu, Email: ghliu@ibp.ac.cn.

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