Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

The cell-free DNA methylome captures distinctions between localized and metastatic prostate tumors

  • Sujun Chen,
  • Jessica Petricca,
  • Wenbin Ye,
  • Jiansheng Guan,
  • Yong Zeng,
  • Nicholas Cheng,
  • Linsey Gong,
  • Shu Yi Shen,
  • Junjie T. Hua,
  • Megan Crumbaker,
  • Michael Fraser,
  • Stanley Liu,
  • Scott V. Bratman,
  • Theodorus van der Kwast,
  • Trevor Pugh,
  • Anthony M. Joshua,
  • Daniel D. De Carvalho,
  • Kim N. Chi,
  • Philip Awadalla,
  • Guoli Ji,
  • Felix Feng,
  • Alexander W. Wyatt,
  • Housheng Hansen He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34012-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Metastatic prostate cancer can be difficult to biopsy and characterise. Here, the authors use cell-free DNA methylation analysis to illustrate changes in hypermethylation in metastatic disease.