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Insertion of a neomycin resistance cassette into the gene introduced loxP sites that flank exons 3 and 4, and added an intron and polyadenylation signal from the human beta globin gene. From the mutated allele, Northern blot analysis detected the wild type mature transcript and also a transcript in which the beta globin intron was unspliced. (J:67910)