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DREAMing: a simple and ultrasensitive method for assessing intratumor epigenetic heterogeneity directly from liquid biopsies.
Nucleic acids research - 15 Dec 2015
Pisanic Thomas R, Athamanolap Pornpat, Poh Weijie, Chen Chen, Hulbert Alicia, Brock Malcolm V, Herman James G, Wang Tza-Huei
Abstract excerpt
Many cancers comprise heterogeneous populations of cells at primary and metastatic sites throughout the body. The presence or emergence of distinct subclones with drug-resistant genetic and epigenetic phenotypes within these populations can greatly complicate therapeutic intervention. Liquid biopsies of peripheral blood from cancer patients have been suggested as an ideal means of sampling intratumor genetic and...
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