• Long-range evolutionary constraints reveal cis-regulatory interactions on the human X chromosome 

      Naville, Magali; Ishibashi, Minaka; Ferg, Marco; Bengani, Hemant; Rinkwitz, Silke; Krecsmarik, Monika; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Wilson, Stephen W.; Manning, Elizabeth; Chilamakuri, Chandra Sekhar Reddy; Wilson, David I.; Louis, Alexandra; Raymond, F. Lucy; Rastegar, Sepand; Strähle, Uwe; Lenhard, Boris; Bally-Cuif, Laure; van Heyningen, Veronica; Fitzpatrick, David R.; Becker, Thomas S.; Crollius, Hugues Roest (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-04-24)
      Enhancers can regulate the transcription of genes over long genomic distances. This is thought to lead to selection against genomic rearrangements within such regions that may disrupt this functional linkage. Here we test ...