A) chicken pox
B) diabetes mellirus
C) rheumatoid arthritis
D) adenosine deaminase deficiency
Correct Answer: D
Solution :
[d] Gene therapy is an experimental technique. that uses genes to treat or prevent disease. The first clinical gene therapy was given for treating adenosine deaminase deficiency. A four-year old girl became the first gene therapy patient on September 14,1990 at the NIH Clinical Center. Adenosine deaminase deficiency, also called ADA deficiency or ADA-SCID is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder that causes immunodeficiency. ADA deficiency is due to a lack of the enzyme adenosine deaminase.
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