Acute Myeloid Leukemia Case after Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease

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Gene therapy with LentiGlobin for sickle cell disease (bb1111, lovotibeglogene autotemcel) consists of autologous transplantation of a patient's hematopoietic stem cells transduced with the BB305 lentiviral vector that encodes the βA-T87Q-globin gene. Acute myeloid leukemia developed in a woman approximately 5.5 years after she had received LentiGlobin for sickle cell disease as part of the initial cohort (Group A) of the HGB-206 study. An analysis of peripheral-blood samples revealed that blast cells contained a BB305 lentiviral vector insertion site. The results of an investigation of causality indicated that the leukemia was unlikely to be related to vector insertion, given the location of the insertion site, the very low transgene expression in blast cells, and the lack of an effect on expression of surrounding genes. Several somatic mutations predisposing to acute myeloid leukemia were present after diagnosis, which suggests that patients with sickle cell disease are at increased risk for hematologic malignant conditions after transplantation, most likely because of a combination of risks associated with underlying sickle cell disease, transplantation procedure, and inadequate disease control after treatment. (Funded by Bluebird Bio.).

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:386

Enthalten in:

The New England journal of medicine - 386(2022), 2 vom: 13. Jan., Seite 138-147

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Goyal, Sunita [VerfasserIn]
Tisdale, John [VerfasserIn]
Schmidt, Manfred [VerfasserIn]
Kanter, Julie [VerfasserIn]
Jaroscak, Jennifer [VerfasserIn]
Whitney, Dustin [VerfasserIn]
Bitter, Hans [VerfasserIn]
Gregory, Philip D [VerfasserIn]
Parsons, Geoffrey [VerfasserIn]
Foos, Marianna [VerfasserIn]
Yeri, Ashish [VerfasserIn]
Gioia, Maple [VerfasserIn]
Voytek, Sarah B [VerfasserIn]
Miller, Alex [VerfasserIn]
Lynch, Jessie [VerfasserIn]
Colvin, Richard A [VerfasserIn]
Bonner, Melissa [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Beta(A-T87Q) globin
Beta-Globins
Case Reports
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 25.01.2022

Date Revised 25.01.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1056/NEJMoa2109167

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM334346169