Evaluation of a panel of tumor-specific differentially-methylated DNA regions in IRF4, IKZF1 and BCAT1 for blood-based detection of colorectal cancer.

Clin Epigenetics · 2021 · PMC7818774 · PMID 33478584

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failed to reach significancep = 0.07so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Male gender and aging showed a positive association with assay positivity but failed to reach significance ( p = 0.07–0.10).

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