“…Electron micrographs of eukaryotic nuclei show that, in most cells, condensed heterochromatin is enriched at the nuclear periphery (Reik, 2007;Ueda et al, 2014;Wu et al, 2005). Genome-wide mapping using DamID technology (Guelen et al, 2008;Pickersgill et al, 2006) or ChIP-seq (Sadaie et al, 2013;Shah et al, 2013, reviewed in Gruenbaum andFoisner, 2015) revealed that there are laminaassociated domains (LADs), genome regions of low gene density that are in contact with the lamina. In agreement with the characteristics of LADs as transcriptionally silent environments, repressive epigenetic histone modifications are commonly found at the nuclear periphery, including H3K9me2, H3K9me3, H3K27me2 and H3K27me3 (Eberhart et al, 2013;Kind et al, 2013;Wu et al, 2005;Yokochi et al, 2009).…”