Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Detection and characterization of lung cancer using cell-free DNA fragmentomes

  • Dimitrios Mathios,
  • Jakob Sidenius Johansen,
  • Stephen Cristiano,
  • Jamie E. Medina,
  • Jillian Phallen,
  • Klaus R. Larsen,
  • Daniel C. Bruhm,
  • Noushin Niknafs,
  • Leonardo Ferreira,
  • Vilmos Adleff,
  • Jia Yuee Chiao,
  • Alessandro Leal,
  • Michael Noe,
  • James R. White,
  • Adith S. Arun,
  • Carolyn Hruban,
  • Akshaya V. Annapragada,
  • Sarah Østrup Jensen,
  • Mai-Britt Worm Ørntoft,
  • Anders Husted Madsen,
  • Beatriz Carvalho,
  • Meike de Wit,
  • Jacob Carey,
  • Nicholas C. Dracopoli,
  • Tara Maddala,
  • Kenneth C. Fang,
  • Anne-Renee Hartman,
  • Patrick M. Forde,
  • Valsamo Anagnostou,
  • Julie R. Brahmer,
  • Remond J. A. Fijneman,
  • Hans Jørgen Nielsen,
  • Gerrit A. Meijer,
  • Claus Lindbjerg Andersen,
  • Anders Mellemgaard,
  • Stig E. Bojesen,
  • Robert B. Scharpf,
  • Victor E. Velculescu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24994-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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DNA from tumour cells can be detected in the blood of cancer patients. Here, the authors show that cell free DNA fragmentation patterns can identify lung cancer patients and when this information is further interrogated it can be used to predict lung cancer histological subtype.