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Brain tumor mutations detected in cerebral spinal fluid.
Clinical chemistry - 1 Mar 2015
Pan Wenying, Gu Wei, Nagpal Seema, Gephart Melanie Hayden, Quake Stephen R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Detecting tumor-derived cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in the blood of brain tumor patients is challenging, presumably owing to the blood-brain barrier. Cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) may serve as an alternative "liquid biopsy" of brain tumors by enabling measurement of circulating DNA within CSF to characterize tumor-specific mutations. Many aspects about the characteristics and detectability of tumor mutations...
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