PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mandelker, Diana
TI  - Toward Concurrent Testing for Somatic and Germline Variants in Cancer Patients
AID  - 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-16-1043
DP  - 2016 Aug 15
TA  - Clinical Cancer Research
PG  - 3987--3988
VI  - 22
IP  - 16
4099  - http://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/22/16/3987.short
4100  - http://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/22/16/3987.full
SO  - Clin Cancer Res2016 Aug 15; 22
AB  - 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