Understanding the prevalence of germline oncogenic biomarker variants across the Indian population
Aastha Vatsyayan,
Vinod Scaria
Abstract:Background: Germline variants have traditionally been used for determining carrier status in heritable cancer families. However, studies are increasingly finding use of germline variants as therapeutic, diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers used to guide therapy decisions in cancer treatment. Objectives: To study the prevalence of mutation specific oncogenic biomarkers in the Indian population and analyze their presence across disease cohorts Materials and Methods: We annotate the IndiGen data obtained from who… Show more
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