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Illustration of the rationale why the methylation value averaged across all CpG sites in a sequencing read (α-value) is more sensitive at detecting tumor-derived cfDNAs than the traditional methylation level of a CpG site averaged across all reads (β-value). Each line represents a sequencing read and each dot represents a CpG site.
