Jeanv+Severe+Combined+Immunodeficiency

Severe Combined Immunodeficiency A group of rare and could be fatal inherited disorders related to immune system. SCID is for people that have a defect in their immune system that leave them unprotected to potentially deadly infections. The most common form is SCID X1 gene, on the X chromosome. T cells and B cells can’t communicate to fight infections.
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SCID is a x-linked recessive pattern of inheritance and is known as x-linked SCID. When a gene is on the X chromosomes, males are more often affected than females. Males only need to have one bad copy of the gene to have the symptoms. Females need to inherit two bad copies to have symptoms. If the only get one they are still healthy but can still pass it on.

Symptoms usually happen in the first few months of life. The babies will get infections after infections such as ear infections, sinus infections, chronic cough, and rashes. SCID patients can’t respond to antibiotics.
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Daily life with this disease is not easy. People with it just continue to get infections that they can’t fight off.
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It can be identified before the baby is born by removing and testing cells from the placenta.

Bone marrow transplant is a main treatment. It is when unspecialized cells are taken from the bone marrow of healthy donor. A new treatment is under going research. It is called Gene Therapy.
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Research Gene Therapy is happening, this is another way to treat this disease. It’s injecting the healthy gene into the person’s bone marrow stem cells.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">About 1 out of 100,000 people are born with SCID. <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">SCID is sometimes called the Bubble Boy disease.
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