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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2025

Pan-Cancer Detection Through DNA Methylation Profiling Using Enzymatic Conversion Library Preparation with Targeted Sequencing.

Alvida Qvick, Emma Adolfsson, Lina Tornéus, Carl Mårten Lindqvist, Jessica Carlsson, Bianca Stenmark, Christina Karlsson, Gisela Helenius

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2025. 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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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. The Epigenetic Horizon: New Molecular Perspectives.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Alvida QvickClinical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, SE-701 85 Örebro, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-6688-947X
Emma AdolfssonDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, SE-701 85 Örebro, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-7954-0696
Lina TornéusDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Örebro University Hospital, SE-701 85 Örebro, Sweden.
Carl Mårten LindqvistClinical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, SE-701 85 Örebro, Sweden.
Jessica CarlssonDepartment of Urology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, SE-701 85 Örebro, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-8457-7592
Bianca StenmarkClinical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, SE-701 85 Örebro, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-4637-8626
Christina KarlssonSchool of Health Sciences, Örebro University, SE-701 85 Örebro, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-4669-1367
Gisela HeleniusATMP Center, Skåne University Hospital, SE-222 42 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-2317-5738

Funding

Lions Cancer Research Foundation NAÖrebro County Research Committee NARegion Örebro Län NASwedish state - ALF-agreement OLL-1019597 and OLL-993009
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigated differences in circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) methylation between patients with cancer and those presenting with severe, nonspecific symptoms. Plasma cfDNA from 229 patients was analyzed, of whom 37 were diagnosed with a wide spectrum of cancer types within 12 months. Samples underwent enzymatic conversion, library preparation, and enrichment using the NEBNext workflow and Twist pan-cancer methylation panel, followed by sequencing. Methylation analysis was performed with nf-core/methylseq. Differentially methylated regions (DMRs) were identified with DMRichR. Machine learning with cross-validation was used to classify cancer and controls. The classifier was applied to an external validation set of 144 controls previously unseen by the model. Cancer samples showed higher overall CpG methylation than controls (1.82% vs. 1.34%,

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DNA MethylationNeoplasmsAdultAgedBiomarkers, TumorCell-Free Nucleic AcidsCpG IslandsFemaleGene LibraryHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMachine LearningMaleMiddle AgedSequence Analysis, DNABiomarkers, TumorCell-Free Nucleic AcidscfDNAepigeneticsliquid biopsymethylationnext-generation sequencingpan-cancer

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PMID41155454
PMCPMC12564489

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