Epigenetics, fragmentomics, and topology of cell-free DNA in liquid biopsies

YMD Lo, DSC Han, P Jiang, RWK Chiu - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Liquid biopsies that are based on analysis of cell-free DNA from plasma
offer diagnostic information that is otherwise accessible conventionally through invasive …

Clinical relevance of blood-based ctDNA analysis: mutation detection and beyond

L Keller, Y Belloum, H Wikman, K Pantel - British journal of cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) derived from tumours is present in the plasma of cancer patients. The
majority of currently available studies on the use of this circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) deal …

Inferring gene expression from cell-free DNA fragmentation profiles

MS Esfahani, EG Hamilton, M Mehrmohamadi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Profiling of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in the bloodstream shows promise for
noninvasive cancer detection. Chromatin fragmentation features have previously been …

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

S Cristiano, A Leal, J Phallen, J Fiksel, V Adleff… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Cell-free DNA in the blood provides a non-invasive diagnostic avenue for patients with
cancer. However, characteristics of the origins and molecular features of cell-free DNA are …

Life and death of circulating cell-free DNA

A Kustanovich, R Schwartz, T Peretz… - Cancer biology & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Tumor-specific, circulating cell-free DNA in liquid biopsies is a promising source of
biomarkers for minimally invasive serial monitoring of treatment responses in cancer …

Bridging biological cfDNA features and machine learning approaches

T Moser, S Kühberger, I Lazzeri, G Vlachos, E Heitzer - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Liquid biopsies (LBs), particularly using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), are expected to
revolutionize precision oncology and blood-based cancer screening. Recent technological …

Multimodal analysis of cell-free DNA whole-genome sequencing for pediatric cancers with low mutational burden

P Peneder, AM Stütz, D Surdez, M Krumbholz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Sequencing of cell-free DNA in the blood of cancer patients (liquid biopsy) provides
attractive opportunities for early diagnosis, assessment of treatment response, and minimally …

Toward the early detection of cancer by decoding the epigenetic and environmental fingerprints of cell-free DNA

Y Van Der Pol, F Mouliere - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Widespread adaptation of liquid biopsy for the early detection of cancer has yet to reach
clinical utility. Circulating tumor DNA is commonly detected though the presence of genetic …

A clinician's handbook for using ctDNA throughout the patient journey

SO Hasenleithner, MR Speicher - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Background The promise of precision cancer medicine presently centers around the
genomic sequence of a patient's tumor being translated into timely, actionable information to …

Plasma DNA end-motif profiling as a fragmentomic marker in cancer, pregnancy, and transplantation

P Jiang, K Sun, W Peng, SH Cheng, M Ni, PC Yeung… - Cancer Discovery, 2020 - AACR
Plasma DNA fragmentomics is an emerging area of research covering plasma DNA sizes,
end points, and nucleosome footprints. In the present study, we found a significant increase …