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The special organization of chromatin in the nucleus is an important determinant of gene regulation.It is increasingly clear that genomic regulation by distal elements involves the formation of direct physical associations between distal elements and their target genes with the intervening chromatin being "looped out".This raises challenges which include finding distal regulatory elements in human genomes, deciphering the mechanisms by which loci come together and revealing the functional consequence of long distance interaction.