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ArticleNucleic acid therapeutics2022

Preparing n-of-1 Antisense Oligonucleotide Treatments for Rare Neurological Diseases in Europe: Genetic, Regulatory, and Ethical Perspectives.

Matthis Synofzik, Willeke M C van Roon-Mom, Georg Marckmann, Hermine A van Duyvenvoorde, Holm Graessner, Rebecca Schüle, Annemieke Aartsma-Rus

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Article in Nucleic acid therapeutics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Matthis SynofzikDepartment of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research and Center of Neurology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2280-7273
Willeke M C van Roon-MomDepartment of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Georg MarckmannInstitute of Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany.
Hermine A van DuyvenvoordeDepartment of Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Holm GraessnerInstitute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Rebecca SchüleDepartment of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research and Center of Neurology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Annemieke Aartsma-RusDepartment of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1565-654X
Leiden University Medical Center · NLGerman Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases · DEBernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Tübingen · DELudwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DE

Funding

GENOME STUDIES IN HEREDITARY SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA - beyond the exomeR01NS072248 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI Stephan Zuchner · 2011 to 2026
$9.2M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS072248
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapies present a promising disease-modifying treatment approach for rare neurological diseases (RNDs). However, the current focus is on "more common" RNDs, leaving a large share of RND patients still without prospect of disease-modifying treatments. In response to this gap, n-of-1 ASO treatment approaches are targeting ultrarare or even private variants. While highly attractive, this emerging, academia-driven field of ultimately individualized precision medicine is in need of systematic guidance and standards, which will allow global scaling of this approach. We provide here genetic, regulatory, and ethical perspectives for preparing n-of-1 ASO treatments and research programs, with a specific focus on the European context. By example of splice modulating ASOs, we outline genetic criteria for variant prioritization, chart the regulatory field of n-of-1 ASO treatment development in Europe, and propose an ethically informed classification for n-of-1 ASO treatment strategies and level of outcome assessments. To accommodate the ethical requirements of both individual patient benefit and knowledge gain, we propose a stronger integration of patient care and clinical research when developing novel n-of-1 ASO treatments: each single trial of therapy should inherently be driven to generate generalizable knowledge, be registered in a ASO treatment registry, and include assessment of generic outcomes, which allow aggregated analysis across n-of-1 trials of therapy.

Indexed as

OligonucleotidesOligonucleotides, AntisenseEuropeHumansOligonucleotidesOligonucleotides, Antisenseantisense oligonucleotidesethicsn-of-1policyrare diseasesrare neurological diseasesregulatory

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PMID34591693
PMCPMC9058873
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