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Therapeutic options for recessive and dominant conditions. (A) Diseases resulting from recessive mutations can be corrected by the addition of a wild-type gene, as in gene therapy. (B) Diseases resulting from dominant mutations cannot be corrected by the addition of a wild-type gene. Correction of the pathogenic dominant mutation by DNA repair, e.g. CRISPR-mediated genome surgery, is needed.
