The interplay between cancer type, panel size and tumor mutational burden threshold in patient selection for cancer immunotherapy.

The tumor mutational burden (TMB) is increasingly recognized as an emerging biomarker that predicts improved outcomes or response to immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer. A multitude of technical and biological factors make it difficult to compare TMB values across platforms, histologies, and trea...

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Main Authors: Mahdi Golkaram, Chen Zhao, Kristina Kruglyak, Shile Zhang, Sven Bilke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-11-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008332