Journal Article DKFZ-2026-01384

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Blood-based DNA methylation marker model for short-term and long-term lung cancer risk prediction.

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2026
BioMed Central London

BMC medicine 24(1), 344 () [10.1186/s12916-026-04973-y]
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Abstract: Screening heavy smokers with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has been shown to reduce lung cancer (LC) mortality, however, identifying the specific high-risk population that benefits most, a critical requirement for implementing effective and cost-efficient screening, remains challenging.We developed and validated a blood-based DNA methylation marker model (BBDMM) for all participants, including both ever and never smokers, using the LC risk-informative CpG sites from epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS). The model was developed and internally validated in 2,459 participants from ESTHER, a population-based cohort from Germany. Subsequently, BBDMM was externally validated in exactly same 233 participants drawn from the Norwegian HUNT2 and HUNT3 cohorts with long- and short-term follow-ups and cases identified up to 18 and 6.7 years before LC diagnosis, respectively.The BBDMM predicted LC incidence with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.84 [95% confidence interval (95% CI), 0.80-0.87] in the derivation set. In the independent external validation sets, AUCs of 0.85 (95% CI, 0.80-0.90) and 0.85 (95% CI, 0.80-0.90) were observed in HUNT2 and HUNT3, respectively.The BBDMM identified future lung cancer cases with promising potential and the model discrimination was highly stable at different time points. These markers may contribute to the evolution of a blood-based test for predicting LC risk.

Keyword(s): DNA methylation ; epidemiology ; lung neoplasms ; screening

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Note: #EA:C070#LA:M320#

Contributing Institute(s):
  1. Klinische Epidemiologie der Krebsfrüherkennung (C070)
  2. DKTK HD zentral (HD01)
Research Program(s):
  1. 313 - Krebsrisikofaktoren und Prävention (POF4-313) (POF4-313)

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