The test developed can be carried out on mothers at risk of X-linked genetic recessive diseases
including haemophilia and Duchenne muscular dystrophy and mothers at risk of haemolytic disease of the new - born.
Not exact matches
The next phase of the study will
include people with
haemophilia, and there will not be the same limitation.
Still, the standard form of liver - targeted gene therapy carries a range of potential complications,
including the risk of harmful mutations and of the body mounting an immune response against the viral vectors used to carry the correct forms of the defective genes responsible for
haemophilia.
iPS cells have been employed to generate cells for the treatment of various diseases
including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, sickle cell anaemia, Parkinson's disease and
haemophilia [19]--[23].