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Germline Variants in Targeted Tumor Sequencing Using Matched Normal DNA.

JAMA Oncol

January 2016

Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York6Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York, New York9Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.

Importance: Tumor genetic sequencing identifies potentially targetable genetic alterations with therapeutic implications. Analysis has concentrated on detecting tumor-specific variants, but recognition of germline variants may prove valuable as well.

Objective: To estimate the burden of germline variants identified through routine clinical tumor sequencing.

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Importance: The anti-PD-1 therapeutic antibody, nivolumab, has demonstrated clinical activity in patients with advanced melanoma. The activity of nivolumab in subgroups of patients with tumors which have wild-type BRAF kinase vs patients with tumors having mutant BRAF has not systematically been explored in a large dataset.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of nivolumab in patients with wild-type BRAF and mutant BRAF metastatic melanoma.

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