Establishment of methods to inactivate genes by homologous recombination in embryonic stem (ES) cells has provided great advantages to the field of mouse genetics. Using this technology, a number of null mutant mice, so-called knock-out mice, have been generated. The gene-targeting technology offers a strong tool that allows us to understand the function of a particular gene of interest in the whole animal and has contributed to studies in a wide variety of biological research areas. More recently, the original knock-out technology has been further refined to develop advanced strategies to generate conditional knock-out and knock-in mice. In this chapter, an overview of gene-targeting strategies is presented and procedures to generate these genetically engineered mice are discussed.
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Griep, A. E., John, M. C., Ikeda, S., & Ikeda, A. (2011). Gene Targeting in the Mouse. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 770, pp. 293–312). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-210-6_11
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