Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29856367›Full record

ReviewThe Journal of clinical investigation2018

Gene therapy and genome surgery in the retina.

James E DiCarlo, Vinit B Mahajan, Stephen H Tsang

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Review in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
86citing papers in PubMed
7.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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

86 citing papers in PubMed, 131 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Defective efferocytosis in diabetes: molecular mechanisms and emerging therapeutic strategies.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026
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  5. Precise CRISPR-Mediated Editing of theInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  10. A synthetic opsin restores vision in patients with severe retinal degeneration.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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26 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

James E DiCarloJonas Children's Vision Care and Bernard and Shirlee Brown Glaucoma Laboratory, Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, Departments of Ophthalmology, Pathology and Cell Biology, Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
Vinit B MahajanOmics Laboratory, Byers Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Stephen H TsangJonas Children's Vision Care and Bernard and Shirlee Brown Glaucoma Laboratory, Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, Departments of Ophthalmology, Pathology and Cell Biology, Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital · USVA Palo Alto Health Care System · US

Funding

Tumor Biology and Microenvironment ProgramP30CA013696 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI Anil K Rustgi · 1985 to 2026
$115.3M
Instrumentation, Fabrication, and Design CoreP30EY019007 · NEI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Xin Zhang · 2010 to 2026
$12.9M
Stanford Vision Research CoreP30EY026877 · NEI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Jeffrey L Goldberg · 2017 to 2026
$8.0M
Toward mechanism- and gene-based therapies for retinal degenerationR01EY018213 · NEI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Stephen H Tsang · 2008 to 2026
$6.6M
Gene Silencing and Gene Editing in PhototransductionR01EY024698 · NEI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Stephen H Tsang · 2015 to 2026
$4.7M
Structure and Function of Calpain-5R01EY024665 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI MAHAJAN, VINIT B · 2015 to 2019
$1.9M
Mechanistic Studies on Regenerative Medicine Approaches to Childhood BlindnessR01EY026682 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI BASSUK, ALEXANDER G, MAHAJAN, VINIT B · 2016 to 2019
$1.6M
Mechanism-based therapies for photoreceptor degenerationR01EY025225 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI MAHAJAN, VINIT B · 2015 to 2018
$1.3M
Evaluating GWAS AMD Candidate Loci by Gene Editing in Human iPS CellsR21AG050437 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI BASSUK, ALEXANDER G, MAHAJAN, VINIT B · 2015 to 2016
$431k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA013696NEI NIH HHS P30 EY019007NEI NIH HHS P30 EY026877NEI NIH HHS R01 EY018213NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024665NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024698NEI NIH HHS R01 EY025225NEI NIH HHS R01 EY026682NIA NIH HHS R21 AG050437
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Precision medicine seeks to treat disease with molecular specificity. Advances in genome sequence analysis, gene delivery, and genome surgery have allowed clinician-scientists to treat genetic conditions at the level of their pathology. As a result, progress in treating retinal disease using genetic tools has advanced tremendously over the past several decades. Breakthroughs in gene delivery vectors, both viral and nonviral, have allowed the delivery of genetic payloads in preclinical models of retinal disorders and have paved the way for numerous successful clinical trials. Moreover, the adaptation of CRISPR-Cas systems for genome engineering have enabled the correction of both recessive and dominant pathogenic alleles, expanding the disease-modifying power of gene therapies. Here, we highlight the translational progress of gene therapy and genome editing of several retinal disorders, including RPE65-, CEP290-, and GUY2D-associated Leber congenital amaurosis, as well as choroideremia, achromatopsia, Mer tyrosine kinase- (MERTK-) and RPGR X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, Usher syndrome, neovascular age-related macular degeneration, X-linked retinoschisis, Stargardt disease, and Leber hereditary optic neuropathy.

Indexed as

CRISPR-Cas SystemsRetinal DiseasesAnimalsGene EditingGenetic TherapyHumansGeneticsOphthalmologyRetinopathy

Identifiers

PMID29856367
PMCPMC5983345
OpenAlexW2807488219

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