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Genetic evidence for asymmetric blocking of higher-order chromatin structure by CTCF/cohesin

  • Yujia Lu 1 ,
  • Jia Shou 1 ,
  • Zhilian Jia 1 ,
  • Yonghu Wu 1 ,
  • Jinhuan Li 1,2 ,
  • Ya Guo 1,3 ,
  • Qiang Wu , 1
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  • 1. MOE Key Lab of Systems Biomedicine, Center for Comparative Biomedicine, State Key Lab of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, Institute of Systems Biomedicine, Xin Hua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 2. Present address Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Hong Kong, China
  • 3. MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK

Published date: 15 Dec 2019

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Yujia Lu , Jia Shou , Zhilian Jia , Yonghu Wu , Jinhuan Li , Ya Guo , Qiang Wu . Genetic evidence for asymmetric blocking of higher-order chromatin structure by CTCF/cohesin[J]. Protein & Cell, 2019 , 10(12) : 914 -920 . DOI: 10.1007/s13238-019-00656-y

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