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When applied to plasma samples, MendSeqS was able to classify patients with a sensitivity of 96% at 98% specificity in a cohort comprised of 107 individuals evaluated in our laboratory (43 with cancer and 64 without). In cohorts evaluated in three other laboratories, comprising a total of 401 individuals (193 with cancer and 208 without), MendSeqS achieved a sensitivity of 87% at 98% specificity. MendSeqS could in principle be combined with other methods of cfDNA analysis to enhance cancer detection.","journal":"medRxiv","year":2022,"id":300328,"datarank":0.22197213282217299,"base_score":1.3862943611198906,"endowment":1.3862943611198906,"self_citation_contribution":0.20794415416798362,"citation_network_contribution":0.01402797865418937,"self_endowment_contribution":0.20794415416798362,"citer_contribution":0.01402797865418937,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":3,"citer_count":1,"citers_with_citation_signal":1,"citers_with_endowment":1,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9545,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":990774,"name":"Mahmoud Summers","orcid":"0000-0003-2258-6076","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":109479,"name":"Joshua D. 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