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Additive effects of variants of unknown significance in replication repair-associated DNA polymerase genes on mutational burden and prognosis across diverse cancers.

J Immunother Cancer · 2021 · PMC8420654 · PMID 34479923

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On the other hand, germline POL + lung cancers showed increased association between high TMB and FLT1 alterations, and a slight trend towards reduced TMB in cases with oncogenic driver mutations in EGFR , ERBB2 , and KRAS (FLT1, p=0.02; oncogenic driver mutations, p=0.28; Fisher’s exact tests).

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As tissue samples showed a trend towards higher TMB and enabled the detection of slightly more POL variants compared with ctDNA samples, tissue samples were included in the final analysis for patients with both tissue and plasma samples available.

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