What is a VUS - variant of uncertain significance?

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07/05/23

Wendy Kohlmann, MS, CGC is a licensed genetic counselor at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute. In this excerpt from her interview with Andi Last for the Learning Li-Fraumeni Syndrome podcast, she explains what it means when your genetic test results show a VUS: a variant of uncertain significance or variant of unknown significance.

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