Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29159200›Full record

ReviewMolecular therapy. Methods & clinical development2018

Analyzing the Genotoxicity of Retroviral Vectors in Hematopoietic Cell Gene Therapy.

Luca Biasco, Michael Rothe, Hildegard Büning, Axel Schambach

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Review in Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. An Overview of Methods and Tools for Transfection of Eukaryotic CellsFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021
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  16. The Promise and the Hope of Gene Therapy.Frontiers in genome editing · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 4 countries.

Luca BiascoSan Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Milan, Italy.
Michael RotheInstitute of Experimental Hematology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Hildegard BüningInstitute of Experimental Hematology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Axel SchambachInstitute of Experimental Hematology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover · DEThe San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retroviral vectors, including those derived from gammaretroviruses and lentiviruses, have found their way into the clinical arena and demonstrated remarkable efficacy for the treatment of immunodeficiencies, leukodystrophies, and globinopathies. Despite these successes, gene therapy unfortunately also has had to face severe adverse events in the form of leukemias and myelodysplastic syndromes, related to the semi-random vector integration into the host cell genome that caused deregulation of neighboring proto-oncogenes. Although improvements in vector design clearly lowered the risk of this insertional mutagenesis, analysis of potential genotoxicity and the consequences of vector integration remain important parameters for basic and translational research and most importantly for the clinic. Here, we review current assays to analyze biodistribution and genotoxicity in the pre-clinical setting and describe tools to monitor vector integration sites in vector-treated patients as a biosafety readout.

Indexed as

AAVclinical translationgammaretroviralgene therapyinsertional mutagenesislentiviralregulatory authoritiesvector

Identifiers

PMID29159200
PMCPMC5684499
OpenAlexW2763998330

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