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CTCF binding site classes exhibit distinct evolutionary, genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic features

Kobby Essien1, Sebastien Vigneau2, Sofia Apreleva1, Larry N Singh1, Marisa S Bartolomei2 and Sridhar Hannenhalli1*

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1 Penn Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Genetics, 415 Curie Boulevard, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

2 Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, 421 Curie Boulevard, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

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Genome Biology 2009, 10:R131 doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-11-r131

Published: 18 November 2009

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Additional data file 1:

Figure S1: distribution of C+G and CG dinucleotide fractions in the ± 100-bp region flanking the three classes of CTCF sites. Figure S2: distributions of distances from a repeat for each of the three CTCF classes. Figure S3: distributions of differences in gene expression for gene pairs within CTCF blocks. Figure S4: expression distribution for the gene closest to a CTCF site for each of the three classes. Figure S5: distributions of mouse CTCF sites in the three classes. Table S1: class versus class comparison of densities of various histone marks in the 500-bp region flanking CTCF sites. Table S2: fraction of sites within each CTCF site class with unequal distributions of a specific histone mark in upstream and downstream regions (± 5 kbp). Table S3: comparison of upstream and downstream tag counts of various histone marks for each class of CTCF site. Table S4: class versus class comparison of tag-density-differential for various histone marks. Table S5: motifs enriched in the 200-bp flanking region of bound CTCF sites. Table S6:functional enrichment near each of the three CTCF site classes. Table S7: tendency of functional categories enriched near CTCF site classes to have higher or lower expression than background genes. Tables S8: k-mers enriched in each of the three classes of sites relative to the other two classes. Table S9: summary of the main observed differences between the three classes of site.

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Coordinates of the CTCF sites shared among the four cell types.

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Experimentally determined CTCF sites in human and mouse and their occupancy classes.

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