Circulating tumor DNA moves further into the spotlight

Assessment of somatic genomic alterations from tumors can now be performed by sequencing circulating tumor DNA from the cell-free component of blood. This procedure, which identifies tumor-derived somatic mutations from a simple blood sample, circumvents the need for tumor tissue. A recent study hig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sausen, Mark, Parpart, Sonya, Diaz, Luis A
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4062042/