Adenosine deaminase deficiency, also called ADA deficiency or ADA-SCID, is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder that causes immunodeficiency.
It accounts for about 15% of all cases of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).
ADA deficiency may present in infancy, childhood, adolescense, or adulthood.
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Gene therapy is the insertion of genes into an individual’s cells and tissues to treat a disease, and hereditary diseases in which a defective mutant allele is replaced with a functional one.
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