LUCKNOW, July 26 -- The Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) has successfully performed a haplo-identical bone marrow transplant on a five-year-old boy suffering from X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD), a rare inherited genetic disorder that mainly affects young boys and damages the brain, spinal cord and adrenal glands. The life-saving procedure was made possible after the child's father donated stem cells, SGPGIMS said on Sunday.

Conducted under the National Programme for Rare Diseases (NPRD), the transplant is SGPGIMS's first successful bone marrow transplant for X-ALD and, according to the institute, the first such successful procedure in North India.

A haplo-identical transplant is a bone marrow or ...