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JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 139, Issue 3, Pages 726-732Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.01.007
Keywords
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; gammaretroviral vector; lentiviral vector; gene editing; site-specific endonuclease; zinc finger nuclease; CRISPR/Cas9
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- National Institutes of Health
- California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
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The most severe primary immune deficiency diseases (PIDs) have been successfully treated with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for more than 4 decades. However, such transplantations have the best outcomes when there is a well matched donor available because immune complications, such as graft- versus- host disease, are greater without a matched sibling donor. Gene therapy has been developed as a method to perform autologous transplantations of a patient's own stem cells that are genetically corrected. Through an iterative bench- to- bedside and- back process, methods to efficiently add new copies of the relevant gene to hematopoietic stem cells have led to safe and effective treatments for several PIDs, including forms of severe combined immune deficiency, Wiskott- Aldrich syndrome, and chronic granulomatous disease. New methods for gene editing might allow additional PIDs to be treated by gene therapy because they will allow the endogenous gene to be repaired and expressed under its native regulatory elements, which are essential for genes involved in cell processes of signaling, activation, and proliferation. Gene therapy is providing exciting new treatment options for patients with PIDs, and advances are sure to continue.
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