Abstract
The Oxford Nanopore (ONT) platform provides portable and rapid genome sequencing, and its ability to natively profile DNA methylation without complex sample processing is attractive for point-of-care real-time sequencing. We recently demonstrated ONT shallow whole-genome sequencing to detect copy number alterations (CNAs) from the circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) of cancer patients. Here, we show that cell type and cancer-specific methylation changes can also be detected, as well as cancer-associated fragmentation signatures. This feasibility study suggests that ONT shallow WGS could be a powerful tool for liquid biopsy. Graphical Abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 158 |
| Journal | Genome Biology |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 15 Jul 2022 |
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