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Lentiviral Vectors with Cellular Promoters Correct Anemia and Lethal Bone Marrow Failure in a Mouse Model for Diamond-Blackfan Anemia.
Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy - 2 Aug 2017
Debnath Shubhranshu, Jaako Pekka, Siva Kavitha, Rothe Michael, Chen Jun, Dahl Maria, Gaspar H Bobby, Flygare Johan, Schambach Axel, Karlsson Stefan
Abstract excerpt
Diamond-Blackfan anemia is a congenital erythroid hypoplasia and is associated with physical malformations and a predisposition to cancer. Twenty-five percent of patients with Diamond-Blackfan anemia have mutations in a gene encoding ribosomal protein S19 (RPS19). Through overexpression of RPS19 using a lentiviral vector with the spleen focus-forming virus promoter, we demonstrated that the Diamond-Blackfan...
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