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This study is designed to accurately identify the pharmacogenetic determinants of risk of Factor VIII (FVIII) inhibitor development by focusing on only a select group of Hemophilia A (HA) patients who have: (i) received a recombinant FVIII therapeutic product containing the same primary amino acid sequence since their original diagnosis; (ii) verifiable FVIII infusion histories; and (iii) been tested regularly for FVIII inhibitor development.


Clinical Trial Description

We are developing a novel, personalized strategy for assessing immunogenicity of protein therapeutics using, as our model, the infusion of Factor VIII (FVIII) into hemophilia A (HA) patients. About 20% of all treated HA patients develop neutralizing FVIII alloantibodies ("inhibitors") that make disease management difficult and expensive. Nowadays, HA is usually treated with highly purified human recombinant (r)-proteins, an advance in safety from pathogens not accompanied by a decrease in inhibitor incidence. Current strategies for upcoming FVIII formulations focus largely on engineering the most immunogenic epitopes in the hope of forming a universally less immunogenic protein. In contrast, we are pioneering a pharmacogenetic approach to immunogenicity that takes into account the underlying variability of the patient population.

This project focuses on defining the role of individual genetic differences on FVIII immunogenicity. The principles, however, have broader application for protein therapeutics in general. We have studied non-HA-causing variants in the FVIII gene (F8) and have shown that (i) nonsynonymous (ns)-single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) encode several structurally distinct wild-type FVIII proteins in the human population and (ii) a sequence mismatch between patients' endogenous FVIII and infused FVIII due to ns-SNPs is a risk factor for inhibitor development that may explain the high inhibitor incidence in HA patients with black African ancestry.

The most well established risk factor for inhibitor development is the type of HA-causing F8 gene mutation. As a rule, large alterations in F8 and absence of antigenically cross-reactive material (CRM) in plasma are associated with inhibitor development. The most common F8 mutation causing severe HA, an intron-22-inversion (I22I), fits that description but is not associated with a high inhibitor risk. Similarly, while most HA patients with missense mutations do not develop inhibitors, this alloimmune complication occurs frequently in patients with one of a few highly recurrent missense mutations.

While not definitively established, population heterogeneity in the repertoires of HLA-class-II (HLA-II) molecules expressed on the surfaces of the antigen-presenting cells in individual patients is likely another genetic contributor to inhibitor risk.

This project is a comprehensive assessment of the pharmacogenetics of the immune response to FVIII leveraging a unique resource comprised of a group of 55 subjects with severe or moderately-severe HA who were (i) enrolled as previously-untreated patients (PUPs) in the recently concluded clinical trial known as the Advate PUP study and (ii) have received the same r-FVIII protein (i.e., Advate) since birth. Prior PUP-study data as well as new blood samples and data will be obtained from these subjects upon their enrollment into the current study. In addition to having been treated with only a single FVIII product, this exceptional patient cohort was (and continues to be) closely monitored for both FVIII infusion history and inhibitor development, the latter of which by undergoing frequent Bethesda testing. (HA patients who have been treated with several FVIII products are not ideal for testing the hypotheses we have proposed.) ;


Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective


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NCT number NCT01626105
Study type Observational
Source Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital
Contact Tom E. Howard, M.D., Ph.D.
Phone 404-597-8014
Email thoward@txbiomedgenetics.org
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date June 2012
Completion date June 2014

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