Severe combinedimmunodeficiency syndrome

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How would gene therapy be used to treat SCID [severe combinedimmunodeficiency syndrome]?I know that most SCID cases are due to amissing enzyme, but I could not figure out exactly how gene therapycould be used to treat it.

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