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Improving viral vector safety for gene therapies

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Of acute concern are integrations that promote abnormal cell growth; while these may be exceedingly rare in the initial population, they can expand rapidly and develop into cancer. PCR-based approaches amplify the vector-genome junctions, and the resulting amplicons are sequenced. to 10% in hepatocytes.