Close Menu

You may find more results for this query on our sister sites: 360Dx and Precision Oncology News.

Home » Sponsors » Genomics: Clinical Implementation » Gene Panel Finds Pathogenic Variants Missed by Standard Tests in 5 Percent of Familial Cancer Cases

Gene Panel Finds Pathogenic Variants Missed by Standard Tests in 5 Percent of Familial Cancer Cases

Dec 06, 2019
|
staff reporter

NEW YORK – An international team led by investigators from Oslo University Hospital in Norway and the Normandy Centre for Genomic and Personalized Medicine in France has demonstrated that multigene panel testing can pick up informative risk variants in a significant proportion of familial cancer cases.

To read the full story....

...and receive Daily News bulletins.

Already have a GenomeWeb or 360Dx account?
Login Now.

Don't have a GenomeWeb or 360Dx account?
Register for Free.

The Scan

Open Spot

Politico notes that the Biden Administration has not yet nominated a permanent Food and Drug Administration commissioner. 

US to Remain in WHO

Anthony Fauci also informed the World Health Organization executive board that the US would be joining the COVAX initiative, according to CNBC.

Dip Possible

A new preprint suggests some SARS-CoV-2 variants could affect the effectiveness of current vaccines, the Associated Press reports.

Nature Papers Examine Australian Lungfish Genome, Essential E. Coli Genes

In Nature this week: Australian lungfish provides details on the movement of vertebrate life from water to land, and more.

Jan
26
Featured Webinar

Panel Discussion: Genotyping by Sequencing for Novel SNP Discovery with Less Common Genomes

Sponsored by
LGC, Biosearch Technologies

Reduced representation next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods are driving understanding of both physical and structural variation in all species.

Jan
28
Featured Webinar

Implementation of a Customized Myeloid NGS-based Solution in an Academic Clinical Laboratory

Sponsored by
Sophia Genetics

This webinar discusses how the University of Michigan has implemented a new next-generation sequencing (NGS) capture-based solution to assess myeloid malignancies while minimizing required laboratory resources. 

Feb
11
Featured Webinar

Virtual Molecular Tumor Board Series: HRD and DNA Damage Repair

Sponsored by
Foundation Medicine

In this session, the first in the Precision Oncology News Virtual Molecular Tumor Board Series, our expert panelists will review patient cases in which genomic profiling has identified biomarkers related to homologous recombination deficiency and DNA damage repair.

Feb
17
Featured Webinar

Single-Cell Multiomics Resolves a Sharp Disease-State Shift between Mild and Moderate COVID-19

Sponsored by
BioLegend

Host immune responses play a central role in controlling SARS-CoV-2 infection, but they remain incompletely characterized and understood.

What's Popular?

In Sequencing

  1. Illumina Wins UK Patent Infringement Suit Against BGI, Affiliates

  2. Ancestry Shutters Health Offering, Raising Questions About Future of Consumer Genomics

    Premium

  3. Lung Cancer Metastasis Study Relies on CRISPR-Based Method to Track Single-Cell Lineages

  4. Breast Cancer Risk Gene Associations Refined in Large-Scale Studies

  5. Quest Diagnostics Wins CDC Contract to Sequence SARS-CoV-2 Samples

Sponsorships

Privacy Policy.  Terms & Conditions.  .  Copyright © 2021 GenomeWeb, a business unit of Crain Communications.  All Rights Reserved.