# OnCo record idea-bio1-methylation-clone-tracking (idea). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-bio1-methylation-clone-tracking/>
  a schema:CreativeWork ;
  onco:kind "idea" ;
  schema:identifier "idea-bio1-methylation-clone-tracking" ;
  schema:name "Track clones in blood with methylation patterns instead of mutations"@en ;
  schema:description "Tumour DNA in blood can be told apart by chemical marks as well as mutations. Marks are more numerous and cheaper to read, so they could track more sub-populations for less money."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-bio1-methylation-clone-tracking/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1113205> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/methylation-profiling/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/liquid-biopsy/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/grail/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/ctdna/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-tumor-heterogeneity/> .