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TT-0129
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AluScan is an innovative genomic technology that cost-effectively captures unstable regions of the human genome for next-generation sequencing. By comparing germline genomes from cancer and non-cancer groups, AluScan can clearly distinguish between them based on differences in germline copy number variations (CNVs). It also differentiates primary lung cancer from lung-cancer brain metastasis using germline CNV profiles, enabling early prediction and prevention of this severe complication. With AI-enhanced modeling, AluScan shows strong potential for first-line prediction and non-invasive early detection of complex human diseases, opening major opportunities in genomic medicine and commercialization.
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Germline AluScan-CNV is a breakthrough platform technology for effective first-line prediction of complex diseases such as cancers and psychiatric disorders based on germline genome copy number variation profiles
Prediction of disease risk well before disease onset, providing opportunity for effective prevention. Demonstrated effectiveness in predicting brain metastasis from lung cancers enables proactive clinical management of such a most devastating complication
Cost-effective in both sample requirement and test expenditure. No need for tissue biopsy. Only less than one tenth of mini-grams of white blood cell DNA is required, a thirty-fold deduction than conventional methods
Artificial intelligence analysis of data generated by AluScan may achieve greatly improved sensitivity at much reduced cost of calculation power and energy, due to extra high signal-to-noise ratio
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