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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2014

Engineering adeno-associated viruses for clinical gene therapy.

Melissa A Kotterman, David V Schaffer

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 401 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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401citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

401 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  12. Protein engineering: status report.Protein engineering, design & selection : PEDS · 2026
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341 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Melissa A KottermanDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3220, USA.
David V Schaffer1] Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3220, USA. [2] Department of Bioengineering, and the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3220, USA.

Funding

Directed Evolution of Adeno-Associated Virus for Retinal Gene TherapyR01EY022975 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI FLANNERY, JOHN GERARD, SCHAFFER, DAVID V · 2014 to 2018
$2.1M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY022975NEI NIH HHS R01EY022975
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical gene therapy has been increasingly successful owing both to an enhanced molecular understanding of human disease and to progressively improving gene delivery technologies. Among these technologies, delivery vectors based on adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) have emerged as safe and effective and, in one recent case, have led to regulatory approval. Although shortcomings in viral vector properties will render extension of such successes to many other human diseases challenging, new approaches to engineer and improve AAV vectors and their genetic cargo are increasingly helping to overcome these barriers.

Indexed as

Genetic EngineeringGenome, ViralCapsidClinical Trials as TopicDependovirusDirected Molecular EvolutionDNA, ViralGenetic TherapyGenetic VectorsHemophilia AHumansMetabolic DiseasesMuscular DystrophiesViral ProteinsDNA, ViralViral Proteins

Identifiers

PMID24840552
PMCPMC4393649

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