Quantitative characterization of tumor cell-free DNA shortening

J Guo, K Ma, H Bao, X Ma, Y Xu, X Wu, YW Shao… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Previous studies found that cell-free DNA (cfDNA) generated from tumors was
shorter than that from healthy cells, and selecting short cfDNA could enrich for tumor cfDNA …

Cell-free DNA provides a good representation of the tumor genome despite its biased fragmentation patterns

X Ma, L Zhu, X Wu, H Bao, X Wang, Z Chang… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) is short, extracellular, fragmented double-stranded DNA found in
plasma. Plasma of patients with solid tumor has been found to show significantly increased …

Automated size selection for short cell-free DNA fragments enriches for circulating tumor DNA and improves error correction during next generation sequencing

S Hellwig, DA Nix, KM Gligorich, JM O'Shea… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Circulating tumor-derived cell-free DNA (ctDNA) enables non-invasive diagnosis,
monitoring, and treatment susceptibility testing in human cancers. However, accurate …

Whole genome deep sequencing analysis of cell-free DNA in samples with low tumour content

D Ganesamoorthy, AJ Robertson, W Chen, MB Hall… - BMC cancer, 2022 - Springer
Background Circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in the plasma of cancer patients contains cell-
free tumour DNA (ctDNA) derived from tumour cells and it has been widely recognized as a …

[HTML][HTML] Fragmentation patterns of circulating cell-free DNA demonstrate biomarker potential for human cancers

Z Zhang, W Zhang - Biotarget, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The often dismal clinical outcomes for most cancers are due to the fact that cancer patients
diagnosed at advanced stages would miss the opportunities for curative treatments or …

Scalable whole-exome sequencing of cell-free DNA reveals high concordance with metastatic tumors

VA Adalsteinsson, G Ha, SS Freeman… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Whole-exome sequencing of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) could enable comprehensive profiling of
tumors from blood but the genome-wide concordance between cfDNA and tumor biopsies is …

Genome-wide cell-free DNA termini in patients with cancer

N Moldovan, Y van der Pol, T van den Ende, D Boers… - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
The structure, fragmentation pattern, length and terminal sequence of cell-free DNA (cfDNA)
is under the influence of nucleases present in the blood. We hypothesized that differences in …

Size distribution of cell-free DNA in oncology

S Udomruk, S Orrapin, D Pruksakorn… - Critical reviews in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tumor-specific, circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in liquid biopsy test is a novel promising
biomarker in the advancement of cancer management, including early diagnosis, screening …

Low-coverage whole genome sequencing of cell-free DNA from immunosuppressed cancer patients enables tumor fraction determination and reveals relevant copy …

A Bouzidi, K Labreche, M Baron, M Veyri… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) analysis is a minimally invasive method that can be used to detect
genomic abnormalities by directly testing a blood sample. This method is particularly useful …

Cell-free DNA (cfDNA): clinical significance and utility in cancer shaped by emerging technologies

S Volik, M Alcaide, RD Morin, C Collins - Molecular Cancer Research, 2016 - AACR
Precision oncology is predicated upon the ability to detect specific actionable genomic
alterations and to monitor their adaptive evolution during treatment to counter resistance …