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Sophia Nielsen

New York UniversityORCID 0009-0003-8309-3686Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Organism:Drosophila· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Assay:scRNA-seq· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Developmental BiologybioRxivPreprintAug 21, 2026

Single-locus chromatin memory enables flexible spatial fate specification in the Drosophila visual system

Yen‐Chung Chen, Sophia Nielsen, Ben Jiwon Choi…·Claude Desplan

The paper shows that single-locus chromatin memory in Drosophila medulla progenitors allows spatial identity to be faithfully executed or flexibly bypassed during neuronal fate specification.

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