What does the figure given below depict? What is its advantage?
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ADA deficiency or adenosine deaminase deficiency is a genetic disorder.
Gene therapy is the transfer of the normal gene into body cells to correct a genetic defect. It can be used to treat genetic diseases like severe combined immunodeficiency. SCID is caused by a defect in the gene for the enzyme adenosine deaminase (ADA).
These patients have non-functioning T lymphocytes and the patients are treated with injections of their white blood cells that have been engineered to carry the normal ADA alleles.
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