Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, P.M.S Dental College, Vattapara, Trivandrum, India
  • 2 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Saveetha Dental College, Chennai, India
  • 3 Community Medicine, Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum, India
  • 4 Human Genome Centre, School of Medical Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, George Town, Malaysia
J Maxillofac Oral Surg, 2021 Sep;20(3):340-344.
PMID: 34408360 DOI: 10.1007/s12663-020-01462-4

Abstract

Objective: In this article, we provide a gestalt idea about NGS technologies and their applications in cancer research and molecular diagnosis.

Background: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) advancements like DNA sequencing and RNA sequencing allow uncovering of genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic scenes of individual malignant growths. An assortment of genomic abnormalities can be screened at the same time, for example common and uncommon variations, auxiliary variations like insertions and deletions, copy-number variation, and fusion transcripts.

Conclusion: NGS innovations together with bioinformatics investigation, which extend our insight, are progressively used to analyze multiple genes in a cost-effective way and have been applied in examining clinical cancer samples and offering NGS-based molecular diagnosis.

Application: NGS is progressively significant as a device for the diagnosis of cancers.

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