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Identification of novel biomarkers for gynecological cancer – when is screening becoming a reality?

Over 1.3 million women are each year diagnosed with one of three major gynecologic cancers, ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer or cervical cancer.

Ulf Gyllensten Ulf Gyllensten

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Next Generation Plasma Proteomics Identifies High-Precision Biomarker Candidates for Ovarian Cancer

Gyllensten, Ulf, Julia Hedlund-Lindberg, Johanna Svensson, Johanna Manninen, Torbjörn Öst, Jon Ramsell, Matilda Åslin, Emma Ivansson, Marta ...

Ulf Gyllensten Ulf Gyllensten

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Alterations in the metabolism of phospholipids, bile acids and branched-chain amino acids predicts development of type 2 diabetes in black South African women: a prospective cohort study

Zeng, Yingxu, Asanda Mtintsilana, Julia H. Goedecke, Lisa K. Micklesfield, Tommy Olsson, Elin Chorell. 2019. Alterations in the metabolism o...

Tommy Olsson Tommy Olsson

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Network-Assisted Disease Classification and Biomarker Discovery

Strunz, Sonja, Olaf Wolkenhauer, and Alberto de la Fuente. 2016. Network-Assisted Disease Classification and Biomarker Discovery. Pp. 353–74...

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