Current and future perspectives of liquid biopsies in genomics-driven oncology

E Heitzer, IS Haque, CES Roberts… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Precision oncology seeks to leverage molecular information about cancer to improve patient
outcomes. Tissue biopsy samples are widely used to characterize tumours but are limited by …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Characteristics, origin, and potential for cancer diagnostics of ultrashort plasma cell-free DNA

I Hudecova, CG Smith, R Hänsel-Hertsch… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Current evidence suggests that plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA) is fragmented around a mode
of 166 bp. Data supporting this view has been mainly acquired through the analysis of …

The potential of liquid biopsies for the early detection of cancer

E Heitzer, S Perakis, JB Geigl, MR Speicher - NPJ precision oncology, 2017 - nature.com
Precision medicine refers to the choosing of targeted therapies based on genetic data. Due
to the increasing availability of data from large-scale tumor genome sequencing projects …

New insights into structural features and optimal detection of circulating tumor DNA determined by single-strand DNA analysis

C Sanchez, MW Snyder, R Tanos, J Shendure… - NPJ genomic …, 2018 - nature.com
Circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) has received increasing interest as an apparent
breakthrough approach in diagnostics, personalized medicine, and tumor biology. However …

Leveraging the fragment length of circulating tumour DNA to improve molecular profiling of solid tumour malignancies with next-generation sequencing: a pathway to …

HR Underhill - Molecular diagnosis & therapy, 2021 - Springer
Circulating cell-free DNA (ccfDNA) has emerged as a promising diagnostic tool in oncology.
Identification of tumour-derived ccfDNA (ie circulating tumour DNA [ctDNA]) provides non …

Association of vascular netosis with COVID-19 severity in asymptomatic and symptomatic patients

S Kapoor, L Mihalovičová, E Pisareva, B Pastor… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
We examined from a large exploratory study cohort of COVID-19 patients (N= 549) a
validated panel of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) markers in different categories of …

A review on the impact of single-stranded library preparation on plasma cell-free diversity for cancer detection

JC Cheng, N Swarup, DTW Wong, D Chia - Frontiers in Oncology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
In clinical oncology, cell-free DNA (cfDNA) has shown immense potential in its ability to
noninvasively detect cancer at various stages and monitor the progression of therapy …