CTCF binds the proximal exonic region of hTERT and inhibits its transcription.

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Published in Nucleic Acids Res on December 02, 2005

Authors

Stéphanie Renaud1, Dmitri Loukinov, Fred T Bosman, Victor Lobanenkov, Jean Benhattar

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1: Institute of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Bugnon 25, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.

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