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Kathryn Monfils1, Tahsin Stefan Barakat1

  • 1Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

European Journal of Cell Biology
|July 10, 2021
PubMed

Keywords:
CondensateDNA loopEnhancer promoter interactionTranscription initiation

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