Allele definition
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How to define PGx alleles
PGx alleles are defined as collections of one or more SNPs, INDELs or structural variants. When a patient is sequenced by next generation sequencing (NGS) we may typically observe more variants than those which are included in any individual PGx allele definitions. This means that
- Patients may have a large, ambiguous number of matching PGx alleles
- Patients may have additional variants that may modify the effect of a known PGx allele
The SNP array method
This definition requires matches only for variants explicitly included in PGx allele definitions. This means that
- Several PGx alleles may match to the patient
- But the presence of additional variants will have no effect on reported PGx alleles
