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The incidence of grade ≥3 ICANS [58.9% vs. 25%, p=0.02] and grade ≥3 cytokine release syndrome [17.7% vs. 4.2%, p=0.08] were higher in patients with DTA mutations than those without CH. The estimated 24-month cumulative incidence of therapy-related myeloid neoplasms after CAR-T therapy was higher in patients with CH than those without CH (19% [95%CI: 5.5-38.7] vs. 4.2% [95%CI: 0.3-18.4], p=0.028). Statement of Significance Our study reveals that clonal hematopoiesis mutations, especially those associated with inflammation ( DNMT3A, TET2, ASXL1 ), are associated with severe grade toxicities in lymphoma patients receiving anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor therapy. Further studies to investigate the mechanisms and interventions to improve toxicities in the context of CH are warranted.","journal":"bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)","year":2021,"id":226902,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9631,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":801028,"name":"David M. 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