Chromosomes

"Chromosomes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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In a prokaryotic cell or in the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell, a structure consisting of or containing DNA which carries the genetic information essential to the cell. (From Singleton & Sainsbury, Dictionary of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, 2d ed)

Descriptor ID	D002875
MeSH Number(s)	A11.284.187 A11.284.430.106.279.345.190 G05.360.162
Concept/Terms	Chromosomes Chromosomes Chromosome

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Chromosomes".

Anatomy [A]
Cells [A11]
Cellular Structures [A11.284]
Chromosomes [A11.284.187]
Intracellular Space [A11.284.430]
Cell Nucleus [A11.284.430.106]
Cell Nucleus Structures [A11.284.430.106.279]
Intranuclear Space [A11.284.430.106.279.345]
Chromosomes [A11.284.430.106.279.345.190]
Biological Sciences [G]
Genetic Phenomena [G05]
Genetic Structures [G05.360]
Chromosomes [G05.360.162]

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Bar chart showing 112 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2016

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1997	0	1	1
1998	1	0	1
2000	0	1	1
2002	0	1	1
2004	5	3	8
2005	1	2	3
2006	2	1	3
2007	3	3	6
2008	4	2	6
2009	4	1	5
2010	2	1	3
2011	3	1	4
2012	3	1	4
2013	2	2	4
2014	2	1	3
2015	3	4	7
2016	6	3	9
2017	3	2	5
2018	2	1	3
2019	1	5	6
2020	3	2	5
2021	3	2	5
2022	5	3	8
2023	2	1	3
2024	3	1	4
2025	3	0	3
2026	0	1	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Chromosomes" by people in Profiles.

Reimonn T, Yilmaz VO, Tran H, Ng G, Liu D, Abdennur N. Jointly-hic: joint decomposition of contact frequency maps captures salient features of genome architecture across tissues and development. Genome Biol. 2026 May 02; 27(1).

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Schooley A, Venev SV, Aksenova V, Lehman JW, Navarrete E, Pai AA, Dasso M, Dekker J. Interphase chromosome conformation is specified by distinct folding programmes inherited through mitotic chromosomes or the cytoplasm. Nat Cell Biol. 2026 Jan; 28(1):82-97.

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Oomen ME, Fox AN, Gonzalez I, Molliex A, Papadopoulou T, Navarro P, Dekker J. Mitotic chromosomes harbor cell type- and species-specific structural features within a universal loop array conformation. Genome Res. 2025 08 01; 35(8):1733-1744.

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Samejima K, Gibcus JH, Abraham S, Cisneros-Soberanis F, Samejima I, Beckett AJ, Pucekov? N, Abad MA, Spanos C, Medina-Pritchard B, Paulson JR, Xie L, Jeyaprakash AA, Prior IA, Mirny LA, Dekker J, Goloborodko A, Earnshaw WC. Rules of engagement for condensins and cohesins guide mitotic chromosome formation. Science. 2025 04 11; 388(6743):eadq1709.

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Dekker J, Mirny LA. The chromosome folding problem and how cells solve it. Cell. 2024 Nov 14; 187(23):6424-6450.

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Rhind N. In through the out door: A loop-binding-first model for topological cohesin loading. Bioessays. 2024 Oct; 46(10):e2400120.

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Abdennur N, Fudenberg G, Flyamer IM, Galitsyna AA, Goloborodko A, Imakaev M, Venev SV. Pairtools: From sequencing data to chromosome contacts. PLoS Comput Biol. 2024 May; 20(5):e1012164.

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Hildebrand EM, Polovnikov K, Dekker B, Liu Y, Lafontaine DL, Fox AN, Li Y, Venev SV, Mirny LA, Dekker J. Mitotic chromosomes are self-entangled and disentangle through a topoisomerase-II-dependent two-stage exit from mitosis. Mol Cell. 2024 04 18; 84(8):1422-1441.e14.

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Zhou CY, Dekker B, Liu Z, Cabrera H, Ryan J, Dekker J, Heald R. Mitotic chromosomes scale to nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio and cell size in Xenopus. Elife. 2023 04 25; 12.

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Cao J, Yu T, Xu B, Hu Z, Zhang XO, Theurkauf WE, Weng Z. Epigenetic and chromosomal features drive transposon insertion in Drosophila melanogaster. Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 03 21; 51(5):2066-2086.

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