Q. The first clinical gene therapy was given for treating
A) Diabetes mellitus
B) Chicken pox
C) Rheumatoid arthritis
D) Adenosine deaminase deficiency
Explanation
[Solution from source] The first clinical gene therapy (1990) was given to a four-year-old girl with adenosine deaminase (ADA) deficiency, putting a functional ADA cDNA into her lymphocytes. Diabetes is treated with recombinant insulin, which is not gene therapy. Answer (4).
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