Disadvantages of Gene Therapy
- Short-lived nature of gene therapy
- Immune response - Genes injected with a virus may trigger an immune response against the virus.
- Problems with viral vectors (once inside the patient, the viral vector could recover its ability to cause disease).
- Multigene disorders - The genetic material might not get into the right cell, or the right place in the cell’s DNA
Anna L. Kaplan, M.D.
