Correction: SNiPER: a novel hypermethylation biomarker panel for liquid biopsy based early breast cancer detection.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.27303.

SNiPER: a novel hypermethylation biomarker panel for liquid biopsy based early breast cancer detection.

Introduction: Mammography is the gold standard for early breast cancer detection, but shows important limitations. Blood-based approaches on basis of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) provide minimally invasive screening tools to characterize epigenetic alterations of tumor suppressor genes and could serve as a liquid biopsy, complementing mammography.

Methods: Potential biomarkers were identified from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), using HumanMethylation450-BeadChip data.