C.Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, and Francesco Maura, MD, discuss their study exploring the utility of whole-genome sequencing in patients with monoclonal gammopathy of uncertain significance and smoldering myeloma to see whether they could identify genomic signatures capable of predicting progression to multiple myeloma.
Whole-Genome Sequencing Identifies 2 Distinct Myeloma Precursor Conditions
Whole-genome sequencing has the potential to accurately differentiate between stable and progressive precursor conditions to multiple myeloma in low disease burden clinical states and the use of this technology in the clinic may result in a significant shift in the management of these patients.