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MOLECULAR THERAPY
Volume 19, Issue 11, Pages 2031-2039Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1038/mt.2011.178
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- NIH [R01 CA 112470-01]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG [Ka976/5-3, SCHM 2134/1-1, SFB738-C3]
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung BMBF [01GU0601 (TreatID), 01GU0809 (iGene)]
- Netherlands Health Research Organization ZonMw
- Translational Gene Therapy Program [43100016]
- European Commission [QLK3-CT-2001-00427-INHERINET, LSHB-CT-2004-005242-CONSERT, LSHB-CT-2006-018933, LSHB-CT-2006-19038]
- Great Ormond Street Hospital Childrens Charity [V1223, V1242] Funding Source: researchfish
- Fondazione Telethon Funding Source: Custom
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Vector-associated side effects in clinical gene therapy have provided insights into the molecular mechanisms of hematopoietic regulation in vivo. Surprisingly, many retrovirus insertion sites (RIS) present in engrafted cells have been found to cluster nonrandomly in close association with specific genes. Our data demonstrate that these genes directly influence the in vivo fate of hematopoietic cell clones. Analysis of insertions thus far has been limited to individual clinical studies. Here, we studied >7,000 insertions retrieved from various studies. More than 40% of all insertions found in engrafted gene-modified cells were clustered in the same genomic areas covering only 0.36% of the genome. Gene classification analyses displayed significant overrepresentation of genes associated with hematopoietic functions and relevance for cell growth and survival in vivo. The similarity of insertion distributions indicates that vector insertions in repopulating cells cluster in predictable patterns. Thus, insertion analyses of preclinical in vitro and murine in vivo studies as well as vector insertion repertoires in clinical trials yielded concerted results and mark a small number of interesting genomic loci and genes that warrants further investigation of the biological consequences of vector insertions.
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