<p>Foreword Peter B. Gahan, Michael Fleischhacker, Bernd Schmidt .- Part I Nucleic Acids in Oncology – prognosis, treatments screening and metastases .- 1 Circulating Cell-free miR-373, miR-200a, miR-200b and miR-200c in Patients with Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Xiaodan Meng, Volkmar Müller, Karin Milde-Langosch, Fabian Trillsch<sup>,</sup> Klaus Pantel, Heidi Schwarzenbach.- 2 Cell-free miRNA-141 and miRNA-205 as Prostate Cancer Biomarkers Ivan D. Osipov, Ivan A. Zaporozhchenko, Anna A. Bondar, Marat M. Zaripov, Vladimir E. Voytsitskiy, Valentin V. Vlassov, Pavel P. Laktionov, Evgeny S. Morozkin.- 3 Clinical utility of circulating tumor DNA for molecular assessment and precision medicine in pancreatic cancer Erina Takai, Yasushi Totoki, Hiromi Nakamura, Mamoru Kato, Tatsuhiro Shibata, Shinichi Yachida.- 4 An Enquiry Concerning the Characteristics of Cell-free DNA Released by Cultured Cancer Cells Abel J Bronkhorst, Johannes F Wentzel, Janine Aucamp, Etresia van Dyk, Lissinda du Plessis, Piet J Pretorius .- 5 Detection of p53 Mutations in Circulating DNA of Transplanted Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients as a Biomarker of Tumor Recurrence Noelia García-Fernández , Hada Macher, Amalia Rubio, Pilar Jiménez-Arriscado, Bernal-Bellido C, Bellido-Díaz ML, Gonzlo Suárez-Artacho, Juan M. Guerrero, Miguel A. Gómez-Bravo, Patrocinio Molinero .- 6 Unbiased Detection of Somatic Copy Number Aberrations in cfDNA of Lung Cancer Cases and High-risk Controls with Low Coverage Whole Genome sequencing Fiona Taylor, James Bradford, Penella J. Woll, Dawn Teare, Angela Cox.- 7 Liquid Profiling in Lung Cancer - Quantification of Extracellular miRNAs in Bronchial Lavage Bernd Schmidt, Grit Rehbein, Michael Fleischhacker.- 8 Screening of KRAS Mutation in Pre- and Post-surgery Serum of Patients Suffering from Colon Cancer by COLD-PCR HRM Elena Trujillo-Arribas, Hado C. Macher, Pilar Jiménez-Arriscado, Fernando de la Portilla, Patrocinio Molinero<sup>, </sup>Juan M. Guerrero<sup>,</sup> Amalia Rubio.- 9 Non-Dividing Cell Virtosomes Affect in vitro and in vivo Tumour Cell Replication Mariano Garcia-Arranz, Damian Garcia-Olmo, Luz Vega-Clemente, Maurice Stroun, Peter B. Gahan.- 10 Features of Circulating DNA Fragmentation in Blood of Healthy Females and Breast Cancer Patients Svetlana N. Tamkovich, Natalia A. Kirushina, Vladimir E. Voytsitskiy, Pavel P. Laktionov.- 11 Liquid Profiling of Circulating Nucleic Acids as a Novel Tool for the Management of Cancer Patients Stefan Holdenrieder.- Part II CNAPS in foetal medicine.- 12 Characterization of Human Pregnancy Specific Glycoprotein (PSG) Gene Copy Number Variations in Pre-eclampsia Patients Chia Lin Chang, Chia Yu Chang, Da Xian Lee, Po Jen Cheng.- 13 Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis of Fetal-Maternal Platelet Incompatability by Cold High Resolution Melting Analysis Marta Ferro, Hada C. Macher, Pilar Noguerol, Pilar Jimenez-Arriscado, Patrocinio Molinero, Juan M. Guerrero, Amalia Rubio.- 14 Implementing Non-invasive Prenatal Diagnosis (NIPD) in a National Health Service Laboratory; from Dominant to Recessive Disorders Suzanne Drury, Sarah Mason, Fiona McKay, Kitty Lo, Christopher Boustred, Lucy Jenkins, Lyn S Chitty.- Part III BIOLOGY OF CNAPS.- 15 Comparative Analysis of Harmful Physical Factors Effects on the Genome of the Cell Irina N. Vasilyeva, Valery N. Zinkin, Vladimir G. Bespalov.- 16 Heterochromatic Tandem Repeats in the Extracellular DNA Olga I. Podgornaya, Irina N. Vasilyeva, Vladimir G. Bespalov.- 17 A Historical and Evolutionary Perspective on Circulating Nucleic Acids and Extracellular Vesicles: Circulating Nucleic Acids as Homeostatic Genetic Entities Janine Aucamp, Abel J Bronkhorst. Piet J Pretorius .- 18 Comparison of microRNA Content in Plasma and Urine Indicates the Existence of a Transrenal Passage of Selected microRNAs Eva Pazourkova, Sarka Pospisilova, Iveta Svobodova, Ales Horinek<sup> </sup>, Antonin Brisuda, Viktor Soukup,<sup> </sup>Jan Hrbacek, Otakar Capoun, Jaroslav Mares, Tomas Hanus, Marek Babjuk, Marie Korabecna.- 19 A Quantitative Assessment of Cell-free DNA Utilizing Several Housekeeping Genes: Measurements from Four Different Cell Lines Janine Aucamp, Abel Bronkhorst, Johannes F. Wentzel , Piet Pretorius.- 20 Oligodeoxynucleotide Analogues of Circulating DNA Inhibit dsRNA-induced Immune Response at the Early Stages of Signal Transduction Cascade in a Cell Type-dependent Manner Anna V. Cherepanova, Zhanna K. Nazarkina, Pavel P. Laktionov.- 21 GC-rich DNA Fragments and Oxidized Cell-free DNA Have Different Effects on NF-kB and NRF2 Signaling in MSC Vasilina A. Sergeeva, Svetlana V. Kostyuk, Elizaveta S. Ershova, Elena M. Malinovskaya, Tatiana D. Smirnova, Larisa V. Kameneva, Natalia N. Veiko.- 22 Evaluation of the State of Transplanted Liver health by Monitoring of Organ-specific genomic Marker in Circulating DNA from Receptor Hada C. Macher, Gonzalo Suárez-Artacho, Pilar Jiménez-Arriscado, Sara Álvarez-Gómez, Noelia García-Fernández, Juan M. Guerrero, Patrocinio Molinero, Elena Trujillo-Arribas , Miguel A. Gómez-Bravo, Amalia Rubio.- 23 Vesicular and extra-vesicular RNAs of Human Blood Plasma Anna V. Savelyeva, Dmitriy N. Baryakin, Elena D. Chikova, Elena V. Kuligina, Vladimir A. Richter, Dmitriy V. Semenov.- 24 Artificial Analogues of Circulating Box C/D RNAs Induce strong Innate Immune Response and microRNA Activation in Human Adenocarcinoma Cells<sup> </sup>Grigory A. Stepanov, Julia A. Filippova, Anna A. Nushtaeva, Elena V. Kuligina, Olga A. Koval, Vladimir A. Richter, and Dmitriy V. Semenov.-25 Multiple Ways of cfDNA Reception and Following ROS Production in Endothelial Cells Anna Y. Alekseeva, Larisa V. Kameneva, Svetlana V. Kostyuk and Natalia N. Veiko.- 26 Protein Content of Circulating Nucleoprotein Complexes<sup> </sup>Svetlana N. Tamkovich<sup>,</sup>, Oleg S. Tutanov, Danil S. Serdukov, Maxim S. Belenikin, Anatoliy G. Shlikht, Natalia A. Kirushina, Tatiana G. Duzhak, Vladimir E. Voytsitskiy, Yuri P. Tsentalovich, Pavel P. Laktionov.- Part IV Methodology.- 27 Digital PCR of Genomic Rearrangements for Monitoring Circulating Tumour DNA<sup> </sup>Hongdo Do, Daniel Cameron, Ramyar Molania Bibhusal Thapa, Gareth Rivalland, Paul L Mitchell, Carmel Murone, Thomas John, Tony Papenfuss, Alexander Dobrovic.- 28 MFast-SeqS as a Monitoring and Prescreening Tool for Tumour-specific Aneuploidy in Plasma DNA Methodological Variables in the Analysis of Cell-free DNA Jelena Belic, Marina Koch, Peter Ulz, Martina Auer, Teresa Gerhalter, Sumitra Mohan, Katja Fischereder, Edgar Petru, Thomas Bauernhofer<sup>5</sup>, Jochen B. Geigl, Michael R. Speicher, Ellen Heitzer.- 29 Methodological Variables in the Analysis of Cell-free DNA Abel J. Bronkhorst, Janine Aucamp, Piet J. Pretorius .- 30 Novel Technology for Enrichment of Biomolecules from Cell-Free Body Fluids and Subsequent DNA Sizing Vipulkumar Patel, Peter Celec, Magdalena Grunt, Heidi Schwarzenbach, Ingo Jenneckens, Timo Hillebrand.- 31 A Rapid and Sensitive Method for Detection of the T790M Mutation of EGFR in Plasma DNA Hideharu Kimura, Shingo Nishikawa, Hayato Koba, Taro Yoneda, Takashi Sone, Kazuo Kashara.- 32 Evaluation of Different Blood Collection Tubes and Blood Storage Conditions for the Preservation and Stability of Cell-free Circulating DNA for the Analysis of the Methylated <sup>m</sup>SEPT9 Colorectal Cancer Screening Marker Jurgen Distler, ReimoTetzner, Gunter Weiss, Thomas König, Anne Schlegel, Michal Bagrowski.- 33 Purification of Circulating Cell-Free DNA from Plasma and Urine Using the Automated Large-Volume Extraction on the QIAsymphony SP Instrument Alexander Wolf, Katharina Beller, Sebastian Groemminger, Wera Hofmann, Matthias Sachse, Jana Fassunke.- 34 Detection and Quantification of KIT mutations in ctDNA by Plasma Safe-SeqS Johannes Fredebohm, Daniel Mehnert, Ann-Kathrin Löber, Frank Holtrup, Vanessa van Rahden, Philipp Angenendt, Frank Diehl.- Part V Ethics.- 35 Lost in translation? Ethical challenges of implementing a new diagnostic procedure Dagmar Schmitz.- Part VI Round-table.- 36 Academia meets Industry General Discussion between panel and audience.</p>
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