CTCF binding sites promote transcription initiation and prevent DNA methylation on the maternal allele at the imprinted H19/Igf2 locus.

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Imprinting at the H19/Igf2 locus depends on a differentially methylated domain (DMD) acting as a maternal-specific, methylation-sensitive insulator and a paternal-specific locus of hypermethylation. Four repeats in the DMD bind CTCF on the maternal allele and have been proposed to recruit methylation on the paternal allele. We deleted the four repeats and assayed the effects of the mutation at the endogenous...

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