Liquid Biopsy of Methylation Biomarkers in Cell-Free DNA

Trends in Molecular Medicine - Tập 27 - Trang 482-500 - 2021
Huiyan Luo1, Wei Wei1, Ziyi Ye1, Jiabo Zheng1, Rui-hua Xu1
1Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China

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