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The results of the treatment of 11 boys with SCIDX1
  showed that
  a. SCID-X1 can be cured through genetic
  engineering.
  b. most of the treated boys were cured of the
  disease.
  c. a transplanted normal IL2RG gene can cure
  SCID-X1.
  d. our understanding of the human genome lags
  behind our ability to modify it.
  e. all of these are true.

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Gene therapy
  a. has not yet been used successfully with
  mammals.
  b. is a surgical technique that replaces defective
  genes with normal genes.
  c. has been used successfully to treat victims of
  autosomal dominant disorders by replacing the
  dominant allele with a recessive allele.
  d. is a genetic engineering technique that replaces
  defective alleles with normal ones.
  e. is none of these.
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