Two-year-old Jameson Gollidayย was born with X-SCID, or “bubble boy disease,”ย which means he has no immune system. At birth he had no mature T-cells, the rugged soldiers of the immune system that sense and fight infections, due to mutations in the IL-2 gene on his X-chromosome, which rendered the gene non-functional.
In April 2012, not long after Jamieโs diagnosis, Jennifer and Jamie, then 1, took a medical jet to Cincinnati Childrenโs Hospital, so that Jamie could participate in a trial for gene therapy. Now he’s free of the bubble.
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