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SCIENCE
Volume 302, Issue 5644, Pages 415-419Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1088547
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We have previously shown correction of X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency [SCID-X1, also known as gamma chain (gammac) deficiency] in 9 out of 10 patients by retrovirus-mediated gammac gene transfer into autologous CD34 bone marrow cells. However, almost 3 years after gene therapy, uncontrolled exponential clonal proliferation of mature T cells (with gammadelta+ or alphabeta+ T cell receptors) has occurred in the two youngest patients. Both patients' clones showed retrovirus vector integration in proximity to the LMO2 proto-oncogene promoter, leading to aberrant transcription and expression of LMO2. Thus, retrovirus vector insertion can trigger deregulated premalignant cell proliferation with unexpected frequency, most likely driven by retrovirus enhancer activity on the LMO2 gene promoter.
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