Genome-scale discovery of DNA-methylation biomarkers for blood-based detection of colorectal cancer.

PLoS One · 2012 · PMC3508917 · PMID 23209692

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marginally significantp = 0.07so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

This difference was marginally significant (p = 0.07).

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of borderline significanceno p-value reported

While in this study, the use of serum resulted in a slightly higher test performance of THBD-M and the multiplex compared to plasma, this difference was of borderline significance.

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