CTCF-binding elements mediate control of V(D)J recombination.

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Published in Nature on September 11, 2011

Authors

Chunguang Guo1, Hye Suk Yoon, Andrew Franklin, Suvi Jain, Anja Ebert, Hwei-Ling Cheng, Erica Hansen, Orion Despo, Claudia Bossen, Christian Vettermann, Jamie G Bates, Nicholas Richards, Darienne Myers, Harin Patel, Michael Gallagher, Mark S Schlissel, Cornelis Murre, Meinrad Busslinger, Cosmas C Giallourakis, Frederick W Alt

Author Affiliations

1: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Children's Hospital, The Immune Disease Institute, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

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