Successful correction of the human beta-thalassemia major phenotype using a lentiviral vector.

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beta-thalassemias are the most common single gene disorders and are potentially amenable to gene therapy. However, retroviral vectors carrying the human beta-globin cassette have been notoriously unstable. Recently, considerable progress has been made using lentiviral vectors, which stably transmit the beta-globin expression cassette. Thus far, mouse studies have shown correction of the beta-thalassemia...

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