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X-SCID

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X-SCIDX-Linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency


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Ada-SCID affects both boys and girls and is more difficult to treat than X-SCID.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA's) Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee made the recommendation following a March 4 hearing called in response to a recent report a third child with X-SCID being treated with gene therapy had developed leukemia in a similar French study.
The agency stressed that both children had been successfully treated by gene therapy for X-SCID and would have died without treatment.
 
 
 
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