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Evaluation of Methylation Biomarkers for Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA and Application to Colorectal Cancer.

Susan M Mitchell, Thu Ho, Glenn S Brown, Rohan T Baker, Melissa L Thomas, Aidan McEvoy, Zheng-Zhou Xu, Jason P Ross, Trevor J Lockett, Graeme P Young and 3 more

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Article in Genes, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Susan M MitchellCSIRO Food and Nutrition, P.O. Box 52, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia. smitch7@gmail.com.
Thu HoCSIRO Food and Nutrition, P.O. Box 52, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia. thu.ho@csiro.au.
Glenn S BrownCSIRO Food and Nutrition, P.O. Box 52, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia. glenn.brown@csiro.au.
Rohan T BakerClinical Genomics Pty Ltd., North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia. rohan@geneticsignatures.com.
Melissa L ThomasClinical Genomics Pty Ltd., North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia. thomas_mel@hotmail.com.
Aidan McEvoyClinical Genomics Pty Ltd., North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia. aidan.mcevoy@clinicalgenomics.com.
Zheng-Zhou XuCSIRO Food and Nutrition, P.O. Box 52, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia. zheng-zhou.xu@csiroalumni.org.au.
Jason P RossCSIRO Food and Nutrition, P.O. Box 52, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia. jason.ross@csiro.au.
Trevor J LockettCSIRO Food and Nutrition, P.O. Box 52, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia. trevor.lockett@csiro.au.
Graeme P YoungFlinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer, Flinders University of South Australia, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia. graeme.young@flinders.edu.au.
Lawrence C LaPointeClinical Genomics Pty Ltd., North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia. larry@clinicalgenomics.com.
Susanne K PedersenClinical Genomics Pty Ltd., North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia. susanne.pedersen@clinicalgenomics.com.
Peter L MolloyCSIRO Food and Nutrition, P.O. Box 52, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia. peter.molloy@csiro.au.
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · AUFlinders University · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Solid tumors shed DNA into circulation, and there is growing evidence that the detection of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) has broad clinical utility, including monitoring of disease, prognosis, response to chemotherapy and tracking tumor heterogeneity. The appearance of ctDNA in the circulating cell-free DNA (ccfDNA) isolated from plasma or serum is commonly detected by identifying tumor-specific features such as insertions, deletions, mutations and/or aberrant methylation. Methylation is a normal cell regulatory event, and since the majority of ccfDNA is derived from white blood cells (WBC), it is important that tumour-specific DNA methylation markers show rare to no methylation events in WBC DNA. We have used a novel approach for assessment of low levels of DNA methylation in WBC DNA. DNA methylation in 29 previously identified regions (residing in 17 genes) was analyzed in WBC DNA and eight differentially-methylated regions (DMRs) were taken through to testing in clinical samples using methylation specific PCR assays. DMRs residing in four genes,

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BCAT1biomarkerscirculating tumor DNAcolorectal cancerepigeneticsGRASPhypermethylationIKZF1IRF4 SDC2liquid biopsyplasmaSEPT9

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PMID27983717
PMCPMC5192501
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