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Published study of primary focus

Álvez MB, Edfors F, von Feilitzen K, Zwahlen M, Mardinoglu A, Edqvist PH, Sjöblom T, Lundin E, Rameika N, Enblad G, Lindman H, Höglund M, Hesselager G, Stålberg K, Enblad M, Simonson OE, Häggman M, Axelsson T, Åberg M, Nordlund J, Zhong W, Karlsson M, Gyllensten U, Ponten F, Fagerberg L, Uhlén M. Next generation pan-cancer blood proteome profiling using proximity extension assay. Nat Commun. 2023 Jul 18;14(1):4308. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-39765-y. PMID: 37463882; PMCID: PMC10354027. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37463882/

Laboratory, first author, and corresponding author of the study

·         SciLifeLab, a collaborative resource for life scientists located in Sweden: https://www.scilifelab.se/

·         María Bueno Álvez (first author), PhD student, Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab): https://www.linkedin.com/in/mar%C3%ADa-bueno-%C3%A1lvez-33395b192/

·         Dr. Mathias Uhlén (corresponding author), Professor of Microbiology, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Leader of the Human Protein Atlas, Founding director of the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab): https://www.kth.se/pro/sysbio/uhlen-group/researchers/mathias-uhlen-1.67763

Olink tools and software

·         Olink® Explore 1536, the platform that measured proteins in this study with a next-generation sequencing (NGS) readout: https://olink.com/products-services/explore/

·         Olink® Explore HT, Olink’s newest solution for high-throughput biomarker discovery that measures 5300+ proteins simultaneously with minimal sample consumption: https://olink.com/products-services/exploreht/

·         Olink® Insight, an open-access resource to accelerate protein biomarker discovery: https://insight.olink.com/

UK Biobank Pharma Proteomics Project (UKB-PPP), one of the world’s largest scientific studies of blood protein biomarkers conducted to date

·         Published article: Styrkarsdottir U, Lund SH, Thorleifsson G, Saevarsdottir S, Gudbjartsson DF, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stefansson K. Cartilage Acidic Protein 1 in Plasma Associates With Prevalent Osteoarthritis and Predicts Future Risk as Well as Progression to Joint Replacements: Results From the UK Biobank Resource. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2023 Apr;75(4):544-552. doi: 10.1002/art.42376. Epub 2022 Dec 28. PMID: 36239377. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36239377/

·         UKB-PPP website: https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/learn-more-about-uk-biobank/news/uk-biobank-launches-one-of-the-largest-scientific-studies

Analysis of UK Biobank proteomics data from cancer patients, with co-authors including Ruth C. Travis, Karl Smith-Byrne, and Joshua R. Atkins

Preprint article: Papier K, Atkins JR, Tong TYN, Gaitskell K, Desai T, Ogamba CF, Parsaeian M, Reeves GK, Mills IG, Key TJ, Smith-Byrne K, Travis RC. Identifying proteomic risk factors for cancer using prospective and exome analyses: 1,463 circulating proteins and risk of 19 cancers in the UK Biobank. medRxiv 2023.07.28.23293330; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.28.23293330. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.28.23293330v1

U-CAN Biobank, a prospective biobank of cancer patient biomaterial in Sweden

Glimelius B, Melin B, Enblad G, Alafuzoff I, Beskow A, Ahlström H, Bill-Axelson A, Birgisson H, Björ O, Edqvist PH, Hansson T, Helleday T, Hellman P, Henriksson K, Hesselager G, Hultdin M, Häggman M, Höglund M, Jonsson H, Larsson C, Lindman H, Ljuslinder I, Mindus S, Nygren P, Pontén F, Riklund K, Rosenquist R, Sandin F, Schwenk JM, Stenling R, Stålberg K, Stålberg P, Sundström C, Thellenberg Karlsson C, Westermark B, Bergh A, Claesson-Welsh L, Palmqvist R, Sjöblom T. U-CAN: a prospective longitudinal collection of biomaterials and clinical information from adult cancer patients in Sweden. Acta Oncol. 2018 Feb;57(2):187-194. doi: 10.1080/0284186X.2017.1337926. Epub 2017 Jun 20. PMID: 28631533. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28631533/

Galleri GRAIL test, a blood-based test that detects a biosignature shared by over 50 cancer types: https://grail.com/galleri-test/

Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project, a biobank and open-access database to study tissue-specific gene expression and regulation: https://www.gtexportal.org/home/

Human Protein Atlas (HPA), a Swedish-based program with the aim to map all human proteins using an integration of various omics technologies and provide these data freely available to the scientific community: https://www.proteinatlas.org/

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