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Proposed model of imprinting at the H19–IGF2 locus: the H19–IGF2 locus consists of a paternally methylated ICR. On the maternal allele, this ICR is unmethylated and is bound by the insulator protein CTCF that prevents access of the IGF2 promoter to downstream enhancers.
