reviewMolecular Systems BiologySep 1, 2017GOLD OA

Revisiting biomarker discovery by plasma proteomics

University of Copenhagen · Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry · +2 more institutions

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Abstract

Clinical analysis of blood is the most widespread diagnostic procedure in medicine, and blood biomarkers are used to categorize patients and to support treatment decisions. However, existing biomarkers are far from comprehensive and often lack specificity and new ones are being developed at a very slow rate. As described in this review, mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics has become a powerful technology in biological research and it is now poised to allow the characterization of the plasma proteome in great depth. Previous "triangular strategies" aimed at discovering single biomarker candidates in small cohorts, followed by classical immunoassays in much larger validation cohorts. We propose a…

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Keywords
  • Proteome
  • Proteomics
  • Biomarker discovery
  • Computational biology
  • Biomarker
  • Biology
  • Profiling (computer programming)
  • Bioinformatics
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