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Adapting crowdsourced clinical cancer curation in CIViC to the ClinGen minimum variant level data community-driven standards.

Human mutation | 2018

Harmonization of cancer variant representation, efficient communication, and free distribution of clinical variant-associated knowledge are central problems that arise with increased usage of clinical next-generation sequencing. The Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) Somatic Working Group (WG) developed a minimal variant level data (MVLD) representation of cancer variants, and has an ongoing collaboration with Clinical Interpretations of Variants in Cancer (CIViC), an open-source platform supporting crowdsourced and expert-moderated cancer variant curation. Harmonization between MVLD and CIViC variant formats was assessed by formal field-by-field analysis. Adjustments to the CIViC format were made to harmonize with MVLD and support ClinGen Somatic WG curation activities, including four new features in CIViC: (1) introduction of an assertions feature for clinical variant assessment following the Association of Molecular Pathologists (AMP) guidelines, (2) group-level curation tracking for organizations, enabling member transparency, and curation effort summaries, (3) introduction of ClinGen Allele Registry IDs to CIViC, and (4) mapping of CIViC assertions into ClinVar submission with automated submissions. A generalizable workflow utilizing MVLD and new CIViC features is outlined for use by ClinGen Somatic WG task teams for curation and submission to ClinVar, and provides a model for promoting harmonization of cancer variant representation and efficient distribution of this information.

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Associated grants

  • Agency: National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), International
    Id: U01HG007436
  • Agency: National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), International
    Id: U41HG009649
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U01 CA209936
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: F32 CA206247
  • Agency: NHGRI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R00 HG007940
  • Agency: NHGRI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U01 HG007437
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R21 CA220398
  • Agency: NCATS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: UL1 TR001409
  • Agency: National Cancer Institute (NCI), International
    Id: F32CA206247
  • Agency: National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), International
    Id: U41HG009650
  • Agency: NHGRI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U41 HG009650
  • Agency: National Cancer Institute (NCI), International
    Id: U01CA209936

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