Serum TGF-β1: A Potential Biomarker for Early Detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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Article history: Received 19 September 2016 Accepted 19 September 2016 Available online 20 September 2016 and convenient way for early detection of human disease. However, many approaches to identify HCC biomarkers are based on NGS (next generation sequencing) technology (Li and Mao, 2013), which is costly and time-consuming. In a study published in this issue of EBioMedicine, Watanabe et al. (2016-in this issue) demonstrated that the serum level of TGF-β1 negatively correlates with
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