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. 2018 Jul 9;46(19):e112. doi: 10.1093/nar/gky590

Figure 6.

Figure 6.

Application of ddPCR to determine relative DNA replication time in human cells. (A) DNA copy number analysis in non-replicating human cells. DNA from male MRC-5 cells arrested in G1 phase of the cell cycle was analysed by ddPCR with probes targeting sex chromosomes, autosomal chromosomes and duplicated genes. Relative copy number was calculated as a mean concentration of all probes adjusted by copy number. (B) DNA concentration analysed by ddPCR across a known replication timing transition zone on chromosome 18. Top: non-replicating control from FACS-enriched G1 HeLa cells, as well as FACS-enriched S phase HeLa cells analysed by ddPCR and sortSeq. Note that G1 and S phase samples, while coming from the same initial population of cells, are independent DNA samples and their absolute concentration cannot be compared. Bottom: repli-seq data of the corresponding genomic region from (14,41). cPNS - combined percentage-normalised signal.