Myelodysplastic syndrome unrelated to lentiviral vector in a patient treated with gene therapy for sickle cell disease

Matthew M. Hsieh, Melissa Bonner, Francis J. Pierciey, Naoya Uchida, James B. Rottman, Laura A. Demopoulos, Manfred Schmidt, Julie Kanter, Mark C. Walters, Alexis A. Thompson,

Blood Advances · 2020 · 148 citations · 23 references

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Key Points Ability to accurately attribute adverse events post–gene therapy is required to describe the benefit-risk of these novel treatments. A SCD patient developed myelodysplastic syndrome post-LentiGlobin treatment; we show how insertional oncogenesis was excluded as the cause.

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