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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2024🎓 HS🔄 Round 4#️⃣ Question 2🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

MIT scientists at the Liu lab are using a modified cytosine deaminase (read: de-ahm-in-ace) base editor which can potentially correct hundreds of disease causing mutations in human somatic cells. Identify all of the following three diseases whose most common variant can be corrected by base editors: 1) Turner's syndrome 2) Sickle cell anemia 3) Down syndrome

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