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The Clinical Utility of Next Generation Sequencing Results in a Community-Based Hereditary Cancer Risk Program.
Journal of genetic counseling - 1 Feb 2017
Bunnell A E, Garby C A, Pearson E J, Walker S A, Panos L E, Blum Joanne L
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Since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on BRCA1/BRCA2 patenting, hereditary cancer gene panels now include BRCA1 and BRCA2, making these panels an option for first-tier testing. However, questions remain about the clinical utility and implications of these panels for medical management with inclusion of genes of unknown to moderate penetrance. To better understand how use of these panels affected our practice, we...
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