Early gene-editing therapies have proven most effective in disorders where a single, well-characterized mutation drives the entire disease process. Because those initial successes were so widely publicized, however, patients and clinicians alike have come to (i) _______ that gene editing generally works this cleanly-an expectation that (ii) _______ badly once applied to conditions whose genetic architecture is far messier, where dozens of interacting mutations, rather than one, (iii) _____ the outcome.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)	Blank (iii)
A. embrace the illusion	D. falters	G. dictate
B. dismiss the notion	E. flourishes	H. resemble
C. confirm the hypothesis	F. stabilizes	I. obscure