The role of CTCF binding sites in the 3′ immunoglobulin heavy chain regulatory region

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Birshtein, Barbara K ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome conformation capture (3C) assay; Class switch recombination; CTCF; Enhancers; Immunoglobulin heavy chain gene locus; Insulators; Pax5

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84876149034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00251     Document Type: Review

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