Assessing HER2 Amplification in Plasma cfDNA.

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Authors

Garcia-Murillas, I
Turner, NC

Document Type

Journal Article

Date

2018-05-02

Date Accepted

2018-05-02

Abstract

Digital PCR (dPCR) is a highly accurate method to determine DNA concentration. In dPCR, DNA is portioned into many discrete single entities, and these are analyzed individually for the presence or absence of a target molecule of interest. Here we describe how digital PCR can be employed to determine the presence of oncogenic amplification through noninvasive analysis of circulating free DNA (cfDNA), and exemplify this approach by developing a plasma circulating free DNA dPCR assay for HER2 copy number.

Citation

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2018, 1768 pp. 161 - 172

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Publisher

HUMANA PRESS INC

ISSN

1064-3745

eISSN

1940-6029

Research Team

Molecular Oncology

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