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Pharmacokinetics of extended half-life albumin-fused factor IX and heterogeneous F9 variants in hemophilia B: a retrospective cohort study
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Published: 2 March 2026
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No information is available about the influence exerted by F9 variants on extended half-life (EHL)-recombinant factor IX (rFIX) pharmacokinetics (PK). Adult patients with severe HB (n=41), infused with EHL albumin-fused-rIX-FP, were investigated for key parameters, obtained by Non-Compartmental Analysis (NCA), and for F9 variants, grouped by non-null (n=27) and null (n=14) lesions. Distribution of PK parameters did not differ between genotype groups. However, clearance in the first tertile, including favorable PK profiles, was slower (p=0.003) in patients with null (mean 0.52 mL/h/kg) than in non-null (mean 0.62 mL/h/kg) variants, and non-null genotypes were more frequent in the third tertile (p=0.046). Missense variant bioinformatics analyses predicted more severe disease features in the third than in the first tertile. These exploratory results suggest i) a moderate role of F9 variant type in inter-individual EHL-rFIX clearance variability and ii) differences in F9 genotype-PK NCA parameter association between EHL- and standard half-life-rFIX products.
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Patients with severe HB were enrolled in a global phase 3 study (www.clinicaltrials.gov, #NCT0101496274), Italian Association of Hemophilia Centres (AICE) initiatives (Genotype-Phenotype PK Study, GePKHIS, EudraCT ID2017‐003902–42)CRediT authorship contribution
Massimo Morfini, Giancarlo Castaman, Francesco Bernardi, conception and design; Barbara Lunghi, Silvia Linari, Dario Balestra, Alessio Branchini, Lisa Pieri, Donata Belvini, Laura Banov, Cristina Santoro, data analysis and interpretation; Barbara Lunghi, Massimo Morfini, Giancarlo Castaman, Francesco Bernardi, writing – manuscript drafting; all authors, writing – manuscript review for important intellectual content. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
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Lunghi B, Morfini M, Linari S, Balestra D, Branchini A, Pieri L, et al. Pharmacokinetics of extended half-life albumin-fused factor IX and heterogeneous F9 variants in hemophilia B: a retrospective cohort study. Bleeding Thromb Vasc Biol [Internet]. 2026 Mar. 2 [cited 2026 Apr. 24];5(1). Available from: https://www.btvb.org/btvb/article/view/413
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