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ReviewThe Journal of clinical investigation2021

Genetic therapies for the first molecular disease.

Phillip A Doerfler, Akshay Sharma, Jerlym S Porter, Yan Zheng, John F Tisdale, Mitchell J Weiss

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Review in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. CRISPR-Cas9 Editing of theThe New England journal of medicine · 2023
    Trial
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  4. Clinical hematopoietic stem cell-based gene therapy.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
    Review
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  6. Development and IND-enabling studies of a novel Cas9 genome-edited autologous CD34Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2024
    Article
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  8. Views of adults living with sickle cell disease on the theoretical return of secondary genomic findings.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2024
    Article
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  16. Safe and efficientMolecular therapy. Methods & clinical development · 2022
    Article
  17. CRISPR-Cas9 to induce fetal hemoglobin for the treatment of sickle cell disease.Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development · 2021
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Phillip A DoerflerDepartment of Hematology.
Akshay SharmaDepartment of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy.
Jerlym S PorterDepartment of Psychology, and.
Yan ZhengDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
John F TisdaleCellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Mitchell J WeissDepartment of Hematology.
Cellular Therapeutics (United Kingdom) · GBNational Heart Lung and Blood Institute · USSt. Jude Children's Research Hospital · US

Funding

VIROSOME/PROTEOLIPOSOME MEDIATED GENE TRANSFERP01HL053749 · NHLBI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI RYU, BYOUNG Y · 1994 to 2022
$43.6M
Identification of Predictors and Outcomes of Sickle Cell Health Care TransitionK01HL125495 · NHLBI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI PORTER, JERLYM S · 2016 to 2020
$767k
Mapping Gamma Globin Regulatory ElementsF32DK118822 · NIDDK · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI DOERFLER, PHILLIP A · 2018 to 2020
$192k
NHLBI NIH HHS K01 HL125495NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL053749NIDDK NIH HHS F32 DK118822
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a monogenic disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of severe bone pain, multi-organ failure, and early mortality. Although medical progress over the past several decades has improved clinical outcomes and offered cures for many affected individuals living in high-income countries, most SCD patients still experience substantial morbidity and premature death. Emerging technologies to manipulate somatic cell genomes and insights into the mechanisms of developmental globin gene regulation are generating potentially transformative approaches to cure SCD by autologous hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation. Key components of current approaches include ethical informed consent, isolation of patient HSCs, in vitro genetic modification of HSCs to correct the SCD mutation or circumvent its damaging effects, and reinfusion of the modified HSCs following myelotoxic bone marrow conditioning. Successful integration of these components into effective therapies requires interdisciplinary collaborations between laboratory researchers, clinical caregivers, and patients. Here we summarize current knowledge and research challenges for each key component, emphasizing that the best approaches have yet to be developed.

Indexed as

Anemia, Sickle CellGenetic TherapyHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationAutograftsHumans

Identifiers

PMID33855970
PMCPMC8262557
OpenAlexW3154471234

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