Expansion of in vivo HDAd-transduced HSPCs by constitutive expression of tHMGA2 without additional treatment allows for therapeutically relevant transgene expression in HSPC progeny cells without clonal dominance.
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PROVIDER: GSE268678 | GEO | 2024/10/08
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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