Fig. 2From: Association of a novel circulating tumor DNA next-generating sequencing platform with circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and CTC clusters in metastatic breast cancerGenomic alterations associated with CTCs. Genomic alterations in ESR1, GATA3, CCND1, and CDH1 were significantly associated with higher number of CTCs (P < 0.05, Mann-Whitney U test). In contrast, alterations in CDKN2A were more commonly observed in samples with low CTC count (P < 0.05, Mann-Whitney U test). In the validation cohort, significant associations were confirmed for ESR1 (P < 0.005) and GATA3 (P < 0.05)Back to article page