Part I. BACKGROUND
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
Brief History and the present and future status of CNAPS
CHAPTER 2 The biology of CNAPS
Part II. METHODOLOGY
CHAPTER 3 Pre-analytical requirements for analysing nucleic acids from blood
CHAPTER 4. Circulating DNA and miRNA isolation
CHAPTER 5 Detection of genetic alterations by nucleic acid analysis: use of pcr and mass spectroscopy-based methods
CHAPTER 6 Genomic approaches to the analysis of cell free nucleic acids
Part III APPLICATIONS
CHAPTER 7 CNAPS and General Medicine
CHAPTER 8 Fetal CNAPS ? DNA/RNA
CHAPTER 9 Circulating nucleic acids and Diabetes mellitus
CHAPTER 10 Extracellular nucleic acids and cancer
CHAPTER 11 Other bodily fluids as non-invasive sources of Cell-free DNA/RNA
CHAPTER 12 CNAPS in therapy monitoring
Part IV OTHER ASPECTCS
CHAPTER 13 Quality Assurance
CHAPTER 14 Societal Aspects: Ethics.