The binding sites for the chromatin insulator protein CTCF map to DNA methylation-free domains genome-wide.

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Published in Genome Res on July 15, 2004

Authors

Rituparna Mukhopadhyay1, WenQiang Yu, Joanne Whitehead, JunWang Xu, Magda Lezcano, Svetlana Pack, Chandrasekhar Kanduri, Meena Kanduri, Vasudeva Ginjala, Alexander Vostrov, Wolfgang Quitschke, Igor Chernukhin, Elena Klenova, Victor Lobanenkov, Rolf Ohlsson

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Development & Genetics, Evolution Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18A, S-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden.

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