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Question: Is the cancer panel - a NGS based technique
Answer:
Yes our hereditary cancer panel is completely NGS-based
Question: Certain genetic mutation occur in different region based on ethnic group, Is your laboratory data base system cover all possible known mutation and deletions across different population groups. Because if it is not, there is no point for a patient in less-prevalent and also mutation occur is that ethnic group to be tested using your service
Answer:
Your are correct about certain ethnic groups being frequent carriers for specific mutations. When doing our analysis, we use several well-known population databases relevant to the patient's ethnicity specified on the Test Requisition Form to identify rare, highly penetrant mutations that have been shown to appear more often. In fact, almost 50% of our database include data from European and African population