Molecular biologists have long thought that domains in the genome’s 3-D organization control how genes are expressed. After studying highly rearranged chromosomes in fruit flies, EMBL researchers now reveal that while this is the case for some genes, their results challenge the generality of this for many others. Their results, published in Nature Genetics on 15 July, reveal an uncoupling between the 3-D genome organization—also called chromatin topology—and gene expression.
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