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Circulating DNA in plasma or serum.
Medicina - 1 Jan 2000
Anker P, Stroun M
Abstract excerpt
Small amounts of DNA circulate in both healthy and diseased human plasma/serum, and increased concentrations of DNA are present in the plasma of cancer patients. Characteristics of tumor DNA have been found in genetic material extracted from the plasma of cancer patients. These features include decreased strand stability, the presence of specific oncogene or tumor suppressor gene mutations, microsatellite...
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