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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 20.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Allergy Asthma Rep. 2016 May;16(5):39. doi: 10.1007/s11882-016-0615-8

Table 1.

Summary of Gene Therapy Outcomes and Current Status for Primary Immune Deficiencies.

Primary Immunodeficiency Overall Outcomes and Current Status
ADA-SCID
  • 100% survival with most achieving protective immune function

  • No complications due to viral vector with over 70 patients treated thus far.

  • Becoming standard of care for patients without matched sibling donors

X-linked SCID
  • In initial trials utilizing gammaretroviral vectors, 5 of 20 patients developed acute T cell leukemia due to viral integration near proto- oncogenes.

  • Subsequent trials utilizing self-inactivating gamma-retroviral or lentiviral vectors demonstrate stable engraftment without leukemic events thus far.

Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD)
  • Early trials were not able to achieve sustained gene correction or resulted in insertional oncogenesis

  • Parallel clinical trials in Europe and the US are utilizing lentiviral vectors with a myeloid-specific promoter driving expression of the transgene.

Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome (WAS)
  • Permanent correction of immunodeficiency was achieved in the majority of patients treated in the initial trial. However, leukemia occurred in 7 of 10 patients due to the retroviral vector.

  • Trials using self-inactivating lentiviral vectors are open in Europe and the US without evidence of genotoxicity thus far.