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Extracellular vesicles or free circulating DNA: where to search for BRAF and cKIT mutations?
Nanomedicine : nanotechnology, biology, and medicine - 1 Apr 2018
Klump Jennifer, Phillipp Ulrike, Follo Marie, Eremin Anna, Lehmann Hannes, Nestel Sigrun, von Bubnoff Nikolas, Nazarenko Irina
Abstract excerpt
Clinical evidence in oncology argues for the advantages of performing molecular analysis of blood biomarkers to provide information about systemic changes and tumor heterogeneity. Whereas the diagnostic value of cell-free circulating DNA (fcDNA) has successfully been demonstrated in several studies, DNA enclosed in extracellular vesicles (EV) has only recently been described, and its potential diagnostic value is...
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