Toward Concurrent Testing for Somatic and Germline Variants in Cancer Patients

Abstract

Sequencing for somatic alterations in patients' tumors is being increasingly clinically implemented to detect mutations that may guide therapy. Germline analysis of a cohort of patients undergoing tumor sequencing with matched normal has revealed that a small but significant percentage of these patients have germline variants that confer cancer susceptibility. Clin Cancer Res; 22(16); 3987–8. ©2016 AACR.

See related article by Seifert et al., p. 4087