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What is somatic gene therapy?

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3 Somatic gene therapy

There is a distinction between somatic cells, those making up almost all of the body, and germline cells, which are the eggs and sperm and the cells that produce them. Somatic gene therapy is the transfer of genes into the somatic cells of the patient, such as cells of the bone marrow, and hence the new DNA does not enter the eggs or sperm. The genes transferred are usually normal alleles that could ‘correct’ the mutant or disease alleles of the recipient (see Study Note 2: The technique of somatic gene therapy).


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What is somatic gene therapy?

Answer => somatic gene therapy

It can be the transfer of genes into the somatic cells of the patients and this process is called somatic gene therapy