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Please rank the following levels of intervention from easiest to perform treatment to most difficult to perform treatment:
a. mutant-gene- clinical phenotype-the family-metabolic function
b. metabolic function-the family-clinical phenotype-mutant gene
c. clinical phenotype-mutant gene-metabolic function-the family
d. the family-clinical phenotype-metabolic function-mutant gene
e. metabolic function-the family-clinical phenotype-mutant gene
Answer would be d. The family-clinical phenotype-metabolic function-mutant gene.
The family therapy is easy to deliver.
Changing the phenotype can be done by providing some alternate substance for the altered substance produced by a faulty gene or enzyme.
Changing a metabolic function inside the body needs to act on a biomolecule level, thus comparatively difficult.
There's no such successful treatment available to alter a mutated gene.