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Validation

Use of an independent patient cohort to determine the population frequency of mutation(s) in a given gene. These alterations are initially detected during the project’s discovery phase.

Verification

Confirmation of somatic mutation(s) observed in a patient case. In general, each case within a given patient cohort will have a different profile of somatic mutations.