Impact of preanalytical and analytical methods on cell-free DNA diagnostics

J Krasic, I Abramovic, A Vrtaric… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
While tissue biopsy has for the longest time been the gold-standard in biomedicine,
precision/personalized medicine is making the shift toward liquid biopsies. Cell-free DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Extraction of cell-free DNA: evaluation of efficiency, quantity, and quality

SK Terp, IS Pedersen, MP Stoico - The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, 2024 - Elsevier
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) serves as a valuable biomarker for early disease detection and
monitoring. However, the use of cfDNA for analysis faces challenges owing to general low …

Epigenetic biomarkers in cell-free DNA and applications in liquid biopsy

W Gai, K Sun - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cell-free circulating DNA (cfDNA) in plasma has gained global interest as a diagnostic
material for noninvasive prenatal testing and cancer diagnosis, or the so-called “liquid …

Simple and cost-effective laboratory methods to evaluate and validate cell-free DNA isolation

A Mojtabanezhad Shariatpanahi, P Rokni… - BMC Research …, 2018 - Springer
Objective In the present study, we investigated different simple and cost effective methods to
evaluate and validate cell free DNA (cfDNA) isolation. The ability of the QIAamp DNA Blood …

Profiling disease and tissue-specific epigenetic signatures in cell-free DNA

A Oberhofer, AJ Bronkhorst, V Ungerer… - Journal of Laboratory …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Programmed cell death, accidental cell degradation and active extrusion constantly lead to
the release of DNA fragments into human body fluids from virtually all cell and tissue types. It …

Cell-free DNA: an overview of sample types and isolation procedures

F Martignano - Cell-free DNA as Diagnostic Markers: Methods and …, 2019 - Springer
The study of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) is often challenging due to genomic DNA contamination,
low concentration, and high fragmentation. Therefore, it is important to optimize pre …

Quick assessment of cell-free DNA in seminal fluid and fragment size for early non-invasive prostate cancer diagnosis

G Ponti, M Maccaferri, M Manfredini, S Micali… - Clinica Chimica …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Liquid biopsy consists in the quantification and qualification of circulating cell-
free DNA (cfDNA) and tumor-derived DNA (ctDNA) for cancer recognition. Recently, the …

Current and future perspectives of cell-free DNA in liquid biopsy

S Liu, J Wang - Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
A liquid biopsy is a minimally invasive or non-invasive method to analyze a range of tumor
material in blood or other body fluids, including circulating tumor cells (CTCs), cell-free DNA …

Cell-free DNA as a diagnostic marker for cancer: current insights

S Salvi, G Gurioli, U De Giorgi, V Conteduca… - Oncotargets and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The increasing knowledge of the molecular pathogenesis of cancer and the rapid
development of new molecular techniques are promoting the study of early molecular …

[HTML][HTML] A comparison of cell-free DNA isolation kits: isolation and quantification of cell-free DNA in plasma

L Sorber, K Zwaenepoel, V Deschoolmeester… - The journal of molecular …, 2017 - Elsevier
The analysis of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) as a sensitive biomarker for cancer diagnosis and
monitoring has resulted in a need for efficient and standardized cfDNA isolation. In this …