Progress towards gene therapy for haemophilia B
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Progress towards gene therapy for haemophilia B.
Haemophilia B is an X-linked recessive bleeding disorder, arising from a deficiency of coagulation factor IX. It has been a target for gene therapy ever since the factor IX gene was cloned in 1982. Several distinct approaches have been evaluated in humans over the last 30 years, but none has resulted in tangible corrections of the bleeding phenotype in humans until recently. Our group has now s...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Hematology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0925-5710,1865-3774
DOI: 10.1007/s12185-014-1523-0