% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Friedrich:275926, author = {U. A. Friedrich and M. Bienias and C. Zinke and M. Prazenicova and J. Lohse and A. Jahn$^*$ and M. Menzel and J. Langanke and C. Walter and R. Wagener and T. Brozou and J. Varghese and M. Dugas and M. Erlacher and E. Schröck$^*$ and M. Suttorp and A. Borkhardt and J. Hauer and F. Auer}, title = {{A} clinical screening tool to detect genetic cancer predisposition in pediatric oncology shows high sensitivity but can miss a substantial percentage of affected children.}, journal = {Genetics in medicine}, volume = {25}, number = {8}, issn = {1098-3600}, address = {London, UK}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, reportid = {DKFZ-2023-00914}, pages = {100875}, year = {2023}, note = {2023 May 3;25(8):100875}, abstract = {Clinical checklists are the standard of care to determine whether a child with cancer shows indications for genetic testing. Nevertheless, the efficacy of these tests to reliably detect genetic cancer predisposition in children with cancer is still insufficiently investigated.We assessed the validity of clinically recognizable signs to identify cancer predisposition by correlating a state-of-the-art clinical checklist to the corresponding exome sequencing analysis in an unselected single-center cohort of 139 child-parent datasets.In total, 1/3rd of patients had a clinical indication for genetic testing according to current recommendations and $10.1\%$ (n=14/139) of children harbored a cancer predisposition. Out of these, $71.4\%$ (n=10/14) were identified through the clinical checklist. In addition, >2 clinical findings in the checklist increased the likelihood to identifying genetic predisposition from $12.5\%$ to $50\%.$ While our data revealed a high rate of genetic predisposition $(40\%,$ n=4/10) in Myelodysplastic Syndrome cases, no (likely) pathogenic variants were identified in the sarcoma and lymphoma group.In summary, our data shows high checklist sensitivity, particular to identify childhood cancer predisposition syndromes. Nevertheless, the here employed checklist also missed $29\%$ of children with a cancer predisposition, highlighting the drawbacks of sole clinical evaluation and underlining the need for routine germline sequencing in pediatric oncology.}, keywords = {Pediatric cancer (Other) / Trio-Sequencing (Other) / clinical checklists (Other) / genetic testing (Other) / germline cancer predisposition (Other)}, cin = {DD01}, ddc = {610}, cid = {I:(DE-He78)DD01-20160331}, pnm = {899 - ohne Topic (POF4-899)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-899}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, pubmed = {pmid:37149759}, doi = {10.1016/j.gim.2023.100875}, url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/275926}, }