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ArticleExtracellular vesicles and circulating nucleic acids2022

Considerations before the application of 5-hydroxymethylation levels of long non-coding RNAs for non-invasive cancer diagnosis.

Zhou Zhang, Chang Zeng, Wei Zhang

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Article in Extracellular vesicles and circulating nucleic acids, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 57% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhou ZhangDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.
Chang ZengDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.
Wei ZhangDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0875-263X
Northwestern University · US

Funding

Epigenomic markers of circulating cell-free DNA and treatment outcome in multiple myelomaR01CA223662 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI CHIU, BRIAN C-H, ZHANG, WEI · 2018 to 2022
$3.2M
Development of 5hmC and 5mC biomarkers in cell-free circulating DNA for sensitive colon cancer detection and prognosisU01CA217078 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI BISSONNETTE, BRUCE MARC, ZHANG, WEI · 2017 to 2021
$3.2M
Detection of 5-hmC as a Novel Screening Biomarker for Pancreatic CancerR21CA187869 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI HOU, LIFANG, ZHANG, WEI · 2015 to 2016
$388k
Identification of Long Non-coding RNAs as Novel Biomarkers for Heterogeneous GlioblastomasR21CA209345 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI CHENG, SHI-YUAN, ZHANG, WEI · 2016 to 2017
$365k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA223662NCI NIH HHS R21 CA187869NCI NIH HHS R21 CA209345NCI NIH HHS U01 CA217078
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous studies have suggested that aberrant 5-hydroxymethylcytosines (5hmC) modifications are related to cancer pathobiology. Genome-wide profiling 5hmC in circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) using the highly sensitive chemical labeling-based 5hmC-Seal technique has been demonstrated to have the potential to be a robust epigenomic tool for cancer biomarker discovery. Prior studies have mostly focused on cfDNA-derived 5hmC-Seal data summarized in well-annotated genic features (e.g., gene bodies) or unbiased bins. Zhou et al. recently proposed long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) as an alternative molecular target for biomarker discovery using publicly available 5hmC-Seal data. Considering its potential clinical impact, we would like to comment on Zhou

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5-HydroxymethylcytosineCancer biomarkerCell-free DNALong non-coding RNA

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