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[Gene therapy for adenosine deaminase deficiency].
[Hokkaido igaku zasshi] The Hokkaido journal of medical science - 1 Jan 1996
Sakiyama Y
Abstract excerpt
Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) due to adenosine deaminase (ADA) deficiency is a fatal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the gene encoding ADA. Based on the first clinical trial of two young girls with ADA-deficient SCID by recombinant retrovirus-mediated gene transfer at the National Institute of Health of USA, we prepared to treat a four-year-old boy with ADA-deficient SCID who had been treated...
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