Retinal gene therapy in patients with choroideremia: initial findings from a phase 1/2 clinical trial.
BACKGROUND: Choroideremia is an X-linked recessive disease that leads to blindness due to mutations in the CHM gene, which encodes the Rab escort protein 1 (REP1). We assessed the effects of retinal gene therapy with an adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector encoding REP1 (AAV.REP1) in patients with th...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2014
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