A serum microRNA classifier for the diagnosis of sarcomas of various histological subtypes

Sarcomas are rare malignant tumours of bone and soft tissue whose diagnosis remain difficult. Here, the authors analyse serum samples from over 1000 patients and using separate discovery, training and validation cohorts, identify and validate a 7-microRNA index that distinguishes malignant sarcomas...

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Main Authors: Naofumi Asano, Juntaro Matsuzaki, Makiko Ichikawa, Junpei Kawauchi, Satoko Takizawa, Yoshiaki Aoki, Hiromi Sakamoto, Akihiko Yoshida, Eisuke Kobayashi, Yoshikazu Tanzawa, Robert Nakayama, Hideo Morioka, Morio Matsumoto, Masaya Nakamura, Tadashi Kondo, Ken Kato, Naoto Tsuchiya, Akira Kawai, Takahiro Ochiya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09143-8