The present invention relates to provide a non-human animal model
unresponsive to a synthetic compound wherein a gene function encoding
TLR7 that recognizes an immunopotentiating synthetic compound such as
imidazoquinoline lacks on is genomic locus. Whole or part of a gene
fragment of a gene site including an intracellular region and a
transmembrane region of a TLR7 gene obtained from a mouse gene library is
replaced by a plasmid including poly A signal and a marker gene to
construct a targeting vector. Then, this targeting vector is linearized
and transferred into embryonic stem cells. The target embryonic stem
cells wherein the TLR7 gene function is deleted are microinjected into a
mouse blastocyst to generate a chimeric mouse. Then, this chimeric mouse
is crossed with a wild-type mouse to generate a heterozygote mouse. Next,
the heterozygote mice are intercrossed to obtain a TLR7 knockout mouse.