Fig. 1.
Schematic showing the shedding of CSF-tDNA from CNS malignancies. Tumor cells from primary brain and spinal cord tumors shed DNA into the CSF that bathes the CNS. DNA purified from the CSF is analyzed for tumor-specific mutations.
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