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Lineage tracing using the Cre-LoxP approach. Rosa26 promoter is ubiquitously active in mice. However, transcription of YFP reporter is blocked because of the transcriptional stop sequence (Srinivas et al., 2001). The Cre recombinase excises the sequence located between two loxP sites thus allowing for the expression of YFP in a specific cell type.
