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The first clinical gene therapy in 1990 treated a child with which deficiency?
AADA deficiency
BPhenylketonuria
CCystic fibrosis
DSickle-cell anaemia
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. ADA deficiency
The 4-year-old girl lacked adenosine deaminase, needed for a working immune system.
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