Challenges in planning and conducting diagnostic studies with molecular biomarkers
N.N. · DMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift · 2013 · Heft 19 · S. e14-e24
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Abstract Biomarkers are of increasing importance for personalized medicine in many areas of application, such as diagnosis, prognosis, or the selection of targeted therapies. In many molecular biomarker studies, intensity values are obtained from large scale –omics experiments. These intensity values, such as protein concentrations, are often compared between at least two groups of subjects to determine the diagnostic ability of the molecular biomarker. Various prospective or retrospective study designs are available for molecular biomarker studies, and the biomarker used may be univariate or even consist in a m…