QIAGEN is proud to feature this recorded webinar with Dr. Fergus Couch, presenting data from a large study that used a targeted sequencing panel to determine pancreatic cancer risk associated with inherited mutations in several cancer predisposition genes.

Inherited germline mutations have been suggested to put individuals with prior family history at risk of developing pancreatic cancer. However, the risk of developing pancreatic cancer due to these mutations without a family history of the disease remains largely unknown. To address this, Dr. Couch and colleagues sequenced the coding regions and consensus splice sites of 21 cancer predisposition genes using an optimized custom DNA panel in more than 3,000 pancreatic cancer patients. Inherited mutations in six cancer predisposition genes were identified to be significantly associated with pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Couch will outline challenges of current targeted sequencing approaches for such large studies, detail the methodologies used to analyze this cohort, and present the results of this study.