TABLE 2.

Discrimination of each DNA methylation marker in the training cohort for esophageal cancer detection in plasma samples.

DNA methylation marker	Ct value		△Ct value
	AUC	p-value	AUC	p-value
ELMO1	0.502	0.963	0.58	0.129
ZNF582 a	0.660	0.003	0.677	0.001
FAM19A4 a	0.544	0.371	0.600	0.043
PAX1	0.568	0.197	0.552	0.334
C13orf18	0.528	0.55	0.512	0.815
JAM3 a	0.512	0.734	0.611	0.029
TERT a	0.587	0.051	0.662	0.001

^a Markers advanced to further analysis.