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Underserved or high-risk populations

Characteristics of Donor and Recipient Clonal Hematopoiesis in Nonmyeloablative Transplant for Sickle Cell Disease.

Sickle cell transplant recipients carry elevated cancer-risk mutations at baseline, highlighting the urgent need for monitoring during cellular therapy.

In a prospective NIH HCT cohort of 170 individuals, SCD recipients carried significantly elevated DNA damage response-mutant CH at baseline compared to non-SCD donors and showed post-HCT clonal expansion from multiple origins. Three fatal cases of TP53-mutant MDS/AML underscore the urgent need for CH monitoring in SCD patients receiving cellular therapy.

What the study was

Study design
Prospective cohort with matched donor controls and error-corrected DNA sequencing
Population
98 sickle cell disease patients and 72 non-SCD donors undergoing HCT at NIH (2004-2023)
Sample size
170
Category
Genomics/Precision Medicine
Maturity
Validated
Journal
Blood

Why it surfaced

Prospective NIH cohort characterizing DDR-mutant CH risk in SCD patients at curative HCT; identifies novel MDS/AML precursor pattern with immediate implications for monitoring and cellular therapy safety screening.

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