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Why are conditional alleles useful in studying genes with functions in essential cell processes?

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Conditional genes enable to study the gene function by manipulating the gene of interest

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Conditional alleles are widely used in molecular genetics to study gene function in target tissues or developmental stages. A conditional allele can be produced by introducing two recombinase recognition sites (SRSs) at flanking regions of the target gene, thereby deletion/inversion of these sites induced by a specific recombinase will produce a null allele. Generally, conditional alleles are designed by introducing LoxP sites flanking the gene of interest; however, classical gene targeting methods (i.e., by homologous recombination) have been historically used in order to produce conditional alleles.

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