Persistent hematopoietic polyclonality after lentivirus-mediated gene therapy for Fabry disease

Autor: Amr H. Saleh, Michael Rothe, Dwayne L. Barber, William M. McKillop, Graeme Fraser, Chantal F. Morel, Axel Schambach, Christiane Auray-Blais, Michael L. West, Aneal Khan, Daniel H. Fowler, C. Anthony Rupar, Ronan Foley, Jeffrey A. Medin, Armand Keating
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Molecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical Development, Vol 28, Iss , Pp 262-271 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2329-0501
DOI: 10.1016/j.omtm.2023.01.003
Popis: The safety and efficacy of lentivirus-mediated gene therapy was recently demonstrated in five male patients with Fabry disease—a rare X-linked lysosomal storage disorder caused by GLA gene mutations that result in multiple end-organ complications. To evaluate the risks of clonal dominance and leukemogenesis, which have been reported in multiple gene therapy trials, we conducted a comprehensive DNA insertion site analysis of peripheral blood samples from the five patients in our gene therapy trial. We found that patients had a polyclonal integration site spectrum and did not find evidence of a dominant clone in any patient. Although we identified vector integrations near proto-oncogenes, these had low percentages of contributions to the overall pool of integrations and did not persist over time. Overall, we show that our trial of lentivirus-mediated gene therapy for Fabry disease did not lead to hematopoietic clonal dominance and likely did not elevate the risk of leukemogenic transformation.
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