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George Chong

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Clinical Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Human GeneticsMcGill University

George Chong

Clinical Assistant Professor

Department of Human Genetics

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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3 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.

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Latest papers

Somatic DICER1 pathogenic variants detected in a well-differentiated fetal lung adenocarcinoma diagnosed in a man with familial adenomatous polyposis
BJC Reports · 2025
Universal Genetic Testing for Newly Diagnosed Invasive Breast Cancer.
JAMA network open · 2024
Data sharing to improve concordance in variant interpretation across laboratories: results from the Canadian Open Genetics Repository.
Journal of medical genetics · 2022

All 20 publications

20 publications.

Somatic DICER1 pathogenic variants detected in a well-differentiated fetal lung adenocarcinoma diagnosed in a man with familial adenomatous polyposis

Afrida Ahmed, Paul Scott Thorner, Anne‐Laure Chong, Naciba Benlimame, David Szlachtycz, George Chong, Sophie Camilleri‐Broët, William David Foulkes

BJC Reports2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1038/s44276-025-00192-9 PMID: 41198948

Universal Genetic Testing for Newly Diagnosed Invasive Breast Cancer.

Rezoug Z, Totten SP, Szlachtycz D, Atayan A, Mohler K, Albert S, Feng L, Lemieux Anglin B, Shen Z, Jimenez D, Hamel N, Meti N, Esfahani K, Boileau JF, Prakash I, Basik M, Meterissian S, Tremblay F, Fleiszer D, Anderson D, Chong G, Wong SM, Foulkes WD

JAMA network open202428 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.31427 PMID: 39226054

Data sharing to improve concordance in variant interpretation across laboratories: results from the Canadian Open Genetics Repository.

Mighton C, Smith AC, Mayers J, Tomaszewski R, Taylor S, Hume S, Agatep R, Spriggs E, Feilotter HE, Semenuk L, Wong H, Lazo de la Vega L, Marshall CR, Axford MM, Silver T, Charames GS, Di Gioacchino V, Watkins N, Foulkes WD, Clavier M, Hamel N, Chong G, Lamont RE, Parboosingh J, Karsan A, Bosdet I, Young SS, Tucker T, Akbari MR, Speevak MD, Vaags AK, Lebo MS, Lerner-Ellis J, Canadian Open Genetics Repository Working Group

Journal of medical genetics202237 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2021-107738 PMID: 33875564

Integrating NGS-derived mutational profiling in the diagnosis of multiple lung adenocarcinomas.

Ezer N, Wang H, Corredor AG, Fiset PO, Baig A, van Kempen LC, Chong G, Issac MSM, Fraser R, Spatz A, Riviere JB, Broët P, Spicer J, Camilleri-Broët S

Cancer treatment and research communications202112 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.ctarc.2021.100484 PMID: 34773797

Multi-center real-world comparison of the fully automated Idylla™ microsatellite instability assay with routine molecular methods and immunohistochemistry on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue of colorectal cancer.

Velasco A, Tokat F, Bonde J, Trim N, Bauer E, Meeney A, de Leng W, Chong G, Dalstein V, Kis LL, Lorentzen JA, Tomić S, Thwaites K, Putzová M, Birnbaum A, Qazi R, Primmer V, Dockhorn-Dworniczak B, Hernández-Losa J, Soares FA, Gertler AA, Kalman M, Wong C, Carraro DM, Sousa AC, Reis RM, Fox SB, Fassan M, Brevet M, Merkelbach-Bruse S, Colling R, Soilleux E, Teo RYW, D'Haene N, Nolet S, Ristimäki A, Väisänen T, Chapusot C, Soruri A, Unger T, Wecgowiec J, Biscuola M, Frattini M, Long A, Campregher PV, Matias-Guiu X

Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology2021

DOI: 10.1007/s00428-020-02962-x PMID: 33170334

Reclassification of a frequent African‐origin variant from PMS2 to the pseudogene PMS2CL

Anne‐Sophie Chong, George Chong, William David Foulkes, Avi Saskin

Human Mutation202010 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/humu.23978 PMID: 31916644

Reflex Testing for Germline BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, and ATM Mutations in Pancreatic Cancer: Mutation Prevalence and Clinical Outcomes From Two Canadian Research Registries.

Smith AL, Wong C, Cuggia A, Borgida A, Holter S, Hall A, Connor AA, Bascuñana C, Asselah J, Bouganim N, Poulin V, Jolivet J, Vafiadis P, Le P, Martel G, Lemay F, Beaudoin A, Rafatzand K, Chaudhury P, Barkun J, Metrakos P, Marcus V, Omeroglu A, Chong G, Akbari MR, Foulkes WD, Gallinger S, Zogopoulos G

JCO precision oncology201829 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1200/po.17.00098 PMID: 35135108

Point Mutations in Exon 1B of APC Reveal Gastric Adenocarcinoma and Proximal Polyposis of the Stomach as a Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Variant

Jun Li, Susan Lesley Woods, Sue C. Healey, Jonathan Beesley, Xiaoqing Chen, Jason S. Lee, Haran Sivakumaran, Nicci Wayte, Kátia Nones, Joshua J. Waterfall, John Pearson, Anne-Marie Patch, Janine Senz, Manuel A. R. Ferreira, Pardeep Kaurah, Robertson Mackenzie, Alireza Heravi-Moussavi, Samantha Hansford, Tamsin R.M. Lannagan, Amanda B. Spurdle, Peter T. Simpson, Leonard Da Silva, Sunil R. Lakhani, Andrew Donald Clouston, Mark L. Bettington, Florian Grimpen, Rita A. Busuttil, Natasha Di Costanzo, Alex Boussioutas, Marie Jeanjean, et al. (75 authors)

The American Journal of Human Genetics2016272 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.03.001 PMID: 27087319

A targeted analysis identifies a high frequency of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers in women with ovarian cancer from a founder population.

Belanger MH, Dolman L, Arcand SL, Shen Z, Chong G, Mes-Masson AM, Provencher D, Tonin PN

Journal of ovarian research201565 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s13048-015-0124-8 PMID: 25884701

A homozygous PMS2 founder mutation with an attenuated constitutional mismatch repair deficiency phenotype

Lili Li, Nancy Hamel, Kristi Baker, Michael J. McGuffin, Martin Couillard, Adrian Gologan, Victoria Marcus, Bernard Chodirker, Albert E. Chudley, Camelia Stefanovici, Anne Durandy, Robert Alexander Hegele, Bing Feng, David E. Goldgar, Jun Zhu, Marina De Rosa, Stephen B. Gruber, Katharina Wimmer, Barbara Young, George Chong, Marc D. Tischkowitz, William David Foulkes

Journal of Medical Genetics201542 citations

DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2014-102934 PMID: 25691505

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George Chong

Research

Latest papers

Somatic DICER1 pathogenic variants detected in a well-differentiated fetal lung adenocarcinoma diagnosed in a man with familial adenomatous polyposis

Universal Genetic Testing for Newly Diagnosed Invasive Breast Cancer.

Data sharing to improve concordance in variant interpretation across laboratories: results from the Canadian Open Genetics Repository.

Integrating NGS-derived mutational profiling in the diagnosis of multiple lung adenocarcinomas.

Multi-center real-world comparison of the fully automated Idylla&#x2122; microsatellite instability assay with routine molecular methods and immunohistochemistry on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue of colorectal cancer.

Reclassification of a frequent African‐origin variant from PMS2 to the pseudogene PMS2CL

Reflex Testing for Germline BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, and ATM Mutations in Pancreatic Cancer: Mutation Prevalence and Clinical Outcomes From Two Canadian Research Registries.

Point Mutations in Exon 1B of APC Reveal Gastric Adenocarcinoma and Proximal Polyposis of the Stomach as a Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Variant

A targeted analysis identifies a high frequency of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers in women with ovarian cancer from a founder population.

A homozygous PMS2 founder mutation with an attenuated constitutional mismatch repair deficiency phenotype

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Laura Palma

Yury Monczak

Kristi Baker

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Richard Fraser

Camelia Stefanovici

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Christian Marshall

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Lucy Gilbert

Gerald Batist

Wilson Miller

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Jordan Lerner-Ellis

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Kasmintan Schrader

Anne-Marie Mes-Masson

Mark Basik

Patricia Tonin

Guillaume Martel

Oliver Bathe

Nicole Ezer

Sarkis Meterissian

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Stephanie Wong

Jonathan Spicer

Multi-center real-world comparison of the fully automated Idylla™ microsatellite instability assay with routine molecular methods and immunohistochemistry on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue of colorectal cancer.