A method of transferring a foreign gene into cells, characterized by involving:
the step of transferring into the cells with the use of an adenovirus vector, a
first nucleic acid, which has a sequence provided with adeno-associated virus-origin
ITRs in both sides of the target foreign gene to be transferred, and a second nucleic
acid, which has an adeno-associated virus-origin rep gene and a promoter for expressing
this gene and carries a stuffer sequence inserted thereinto sandwiched in two recombinase
recognition sequences and located between the rep gene and the promoter; and the
step of expressing the Rep protein under the action of recombinase in the cells
obtained in the above step to thereby integrate the target foreign gene into the
chromosomal DNA.