Using Antibody Arrays for Biomarker Discovery.

Biomarkers for diseases are important for the development of clinical diagnostic tests and can provide early intervention for cancer or cardiovascular patients. Over the past decade, antibody array technology has achieved significant technological improvement in the quantitative measurement of more than a thousand proteins simultaneously and has been utilized to screen and identify unique proteins as disease biomarkers. However, few biomarkers have been translated into clinical application. This chapter will discuss the protocol for the screening and validation of unique proteins that create a new avenue for biomarker discovery.