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New insights and unresolved issues regarding insertional mutagenesis in X-linked SCID gene therapy.
Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy - 1 Nov 2007
Pike-Overzet Karin, van der Burg Mirjam, Wagemaker Gerard, van Dongen Jacques J M, Staal Frank J T
Abstract excerpt
The oncogenic potential of retrovirus-mediated gene therapy has been re-emphasized because four patients developed T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL)-like disease from an otherwise successful gene therapy trial for X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (X-linked SCID). X-linked SCID, a disease caused by inactivating mutations in the IL2Rgamma gene, is part of a heterogeneous group of SCIDs...
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