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ArticleCancers2026

Urine-Based cfDNA Ensemble Modeling for Early Detection of Bladder Cancer Using Whole-Genome Methylation Sequencing.

Taehoon Kim, Dongju Shin, Hyun Kyu Ahn, Young Joon Moon, Duhee Bang, Kwang Hyun Kim

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Article in Cancers, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors.

Taehoon KimDepartment of Chemistry, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0009-0008-3596-4412
Dongju ShinDepartment of Chemistry, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea.
Hyun Kyu AhnDepartment of Urology, Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital, Seoul 07804, Republic of Korea.
Young Joon MoonDepartment of Urology, Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital, Seoul 07804, Republic of Korea.
Duhee BangDepartment of Chemistry, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea.
Kwang Hyun KimDepartment of Urology, Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital, Seoul 07804, Republic of Korea.

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea 2021R1C1C1011386National Research Foundation of Korea RS-2024-00338316
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early detection of bladder cancer poses a major challenge for liquid biopsy due to limited tumor burden and low abundance of tumor-derived DNA. In such low-signal settings, detection sensitivity critically depends on both biofluid selection and effective integration of weak, distributed molecular signals. We analyzed Enzymatic Methyl-seq (EM-seq) data on 41 matched urine-plasma pairs, which demonstrated that urine samples exhibited significantly higher tumor fractions and greater concordance with tissue methylation profiles than plasma. Based on this observation, we developed a urine-based bladder cancer detection framework using EM-seq. We profiled 143 urine samples (68 bladder cancer and 75 healthy controls) and 14 bladder cancer tissues. Methylation markers (113,052 regions) were identified by comparing cancer tissues (

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bladder cancermulti-feature ensemble modelnon-invasive cancer detectionurine cell-free DNAwhole-genome methylation sequencing

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