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The pgk promoter was flanked by loxP elements so that it could be deleted by the action of Cre recombinase.
The pufferfish gene is flanked on the 5' side by a kinesin gene that lies 30 kb upstream from the BDNF coding exon and on the 3' side by a Lin7 gene, less than 5 kb downstream from the coding exon.
To add antibiotic selection, the Kan r gene from pUniV5-His-TOPO™ (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) was flanked with Srf I sites and inserted into the transposon.
All families except BJ and CZ were analyzed for linkage to the 5.6 cM FEOM3 locus flanked by D16S486 and 16qter.
The last one in particular is superb, and is approached down a vertiginous road flanked by massive cliffs.