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The parent of a child diagnosed with becker muscular dystrophy asks why gene therapy is not being used to treat the child. what is the best response by the nurse?

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The parent of a child diagnosed with becker muscular dystrophy asks why gene therapy is not being used to treat the child. what is the best response by the nurse Gene therapy remains experimental and is used only in clinical trials.

Gene therapy, also called gene transfer therapy, introduction of a normal gene into an individual’s genome in order to repair a mutation that causes a genetic disease. When a normal gene is inserted into the nucleus of a mutant cell, the gene most likely will integrate into a chromosomal site different from the defective allele; although that may repair the mutation, a new mutation may result if the normal Gene therapy  integrates into another functional Gene therapy. If the normal gene replaces the mutant allele, there is a chance that the transformed cells will proliferate and produce enough normal gene product for the entire body to be restored to the undiseased phenotype.

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