Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Clinical and genomic features of Chinese lung cancer patients with germline mutations

  • Wenying Peng,
  • Bin Li,
  • Jin Li,
  • Lianpeng Chang,
  • Jing Bai,
  • Yuting Yi,
  • Rongrong Chen,
  • Yanyan Zhang,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Xingxiang Pu,
  • Meilin Jiang,
  • Jia Li,
  • Rui Zhong,
  • Fang Xu,
  • Bolin Chen,
  • Li Xu,
  • Ning Wang,
  • Jiaojiao Huan,
  • Pingping Dai,
  • Yanfang Guan,
  • Ling Yang,
  • Xuefeng Xia,
  • Xin Yi,
  • Jiayin Wang,
  • Fenglei Yu,
  • Lin Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28840-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Germline variants that predispose to lung cancer have been mostly studied in Western populations, but data from Chinese patients is lacking. Here the authors analyze lung cancer germline variants in 1794 Chinese patients, finding exclusive variants or with different frequency compared to TCGA data.