To determine whether the putative enhancer-docking site plays a functional role in MYC expression through DNA loop formation, small perturbations of the CTCF binding site were generated in both alleles of the tumor cell lines K562, HCT-116, Jurkat, and MCF7 using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 (Figures 2A and 2B). This evidence concerns the gene MYC and neoplasm.