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Clinical Quality in Cancer Research: Strategy to Assess Data Integrity of Germline Variants Inferred from Tumor-Only Testing Sequencing Data.
Pharmaceutical medicine - 1 Jul 2021
Ménard Timothé, Rolo Donato, Koneswarakantha Björn
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In the majority of cancers, pathogenic variants are only found at the level of the tumor; however, an unusual number of cancers and/or diagnoses at an early age in a single family may suggest a genetic predisposition. Predisposition plays a major role in about 5-10% of adult cancers and in certain childhood tumors. As access to genomic testing for cancer patients continues to expand, the identification of...
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