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M-PACT leverages cell-free DNA methylomes to achieve robust classification of pediatric brain tumors - PubMed

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  • #pediatric brain tumors
  • #liquid biopsy
  • #DNA methylation
  • M-PACT uses cell-free DNA methylomes for pediatric brain tumor classification.
  • Achieves 92% accuracy in embryonal CNS tumor benchmarking (n=79) and 88% in validation (n=58).
  • Works with nonembryonal CNS tumors, balanced tumor genomes, and nonmalignant CSF.
  • Enables methylation-based cellular deconvolution and copy-number variation detection.
  • Provides a blueprint for CNS tumor classification from low-input cfDNA methylomes.