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Multiple presentations at the recent ESHG meeting focused on questions related to diversity in GWAS as well as applying risk scores in admixed populations.
ESHG: UK Study Finds 6 Percent of Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients Carry Cancer Risk Variant
Researchers looked for pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants in 121 cancer risk genes in whole-genome sequencing data from 1,336 unselected RCC patients.
At ESHG, Thermo Fisher Official Predicts IVDR Will Push Labs to Replace LDTs With Commercial Kits
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Europe's new In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation is reshaping the way that laboratories in the region use in-house assays for diagnostics.
At the European Society of Human Genetics annual meeting this week, MGI customers from Sweden and Hungary reported on their experience with the sequencing platform.
New ESHG Recommendations for Clinical Whole-Genome Sequencing Show Differences From US Guidelines
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Previous guidelines for clinical NGS, published by the society in collaboration with EuroGenTest in 2016, focused mainly on whole-exome sequencing.