"Heterochromatin" 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.
The portion of chromosome material that remains condensed and is transcriptionally inactive during INTERPHASE.
| Descriptor ID |
D006570
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.430.106.279.345.190.160.180.383 D12.776.664.224.466 G05.360.160.180.383
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Heterochromatin" by people in this website by year, and whether "Heterochromatin" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2019 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Heterochromatin" by people in Profiles.
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Hall LL, Smith KP, Lawrence JB. Emerging Functions of the Repeat Genome in Nuclear Structure: A View from the Human Karyotype. Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet. 2025 Aug; 26(1):45-75.
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Takei Y, Yang Y, White J, Goronzy IN, Yun J, Prasad M, Ombelets LJ, Schindler S, Bhat P, Guttman M, Cai L. Spatial multi-omics reveals cell-type-specific nuclear compartments. Nature. 2025 May; 641(8064):1037-1047.
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Hall LL, Creamer KM, Byron M, Lawrence JB. Cytogenetic bands and sharp peaks of Alu underlie large-scale segmental regulation of nuclear genome architecture. Nucleus. 2024 Dec; 15(1):2400525.
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Kumar P, Gholamalamdari O, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Vertii A, van Schaik T, Peric-Hupkes D, Sasaki T, Gilbert DM, van Steensel B, Ma J, Kaufman PD, Belmont AS. Nucleolus and centromere Tyramide Signal Amplification-Seq reveals variable localization of heterochromatin in different cell types. Commun Biol. 2024 09 13; 7(1):1135.
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Peterson CL. Heterochromatin: Hiding from the remodeling machines. Mol Cell. 2024 Sep 05; 84(17):3167-3169.
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Scelfo A, Barra V, Abdennur N, Spracklin G, Busato F, Salinas-Luypaert C, Bonaiti E, Velasco G, Bonhomme F, Chipont A, Tijhuis AE, Spierings DCJ, Gu?rin C, Arimondo P, Francastel C, Foijer F, Tost J, Mirny L, Fachinetti D. Tunable DNMT1 degradation reveals DNMT1/DNMT3B synergy in DNA methylation and genome organization. J Cell Biol. 2024 04 01; 223(4).
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Kumari A, Vertii A. Perspective: "Current understanding of NADs dynamics and mechanisms of Disease". Gene. 2024 Feb 05; 894:147960.
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Ding YH, Ochoa HJ, Ishidate T, Shirayama M, Mello CC. The nuclear Argonaute HRDE-1 directs target gene re-localization and shuttles to nuage to promote small RNA-mediated inherited silencing. Cell Rep. 2023 05 30; 42(5):112408.
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Spracklin G, Yang L, Pradhan S, Dekker J. Measuring Inaccessible Chromatin Genome-Wide Using Protect-seq. Methods Mol Biol. 2023; 2611:53-61.
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Spracklin G, Abdennur N, Imakaev M, Chowdhury N, Pradhan S, Mirny LA, Dekker J. Diverse silent chromatin states modulate genome compartmentalization and loop extrusion barriers. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2023 Jan; 30(1):38-51.