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Exosomes serve as a liquid biopsy tool for clinical and translational research. Although many techniques have been used to isolate exosomes, including ultracentrigation, size-exclusion chromatography, and immunocapturing-based techniques, these techniques are not convenient, they require expensive instrumentation, and they are unhandy for clinical samples. Precipitation techniques from available commercial kits that contain polyethelene glycol (PEG) are now widely used, but these kits are expensive, especially if a large number of biological samples are to be processed. Objective: the purpose of this study is to compare and optimize the efficacy of different concentrations of PEG with two commercial kits ExoQuick (SBI) and Total Exosome Isolation (TEI) from Invitrogen in human plasma. Methods and Materials: we determined exosome quantity, size distribution, marker expression, and downstream application. Results: among the precipitation methods, we found the size of particles and concentrations with 10\u201320% PEG are similar to ExoQuick and better than TEI. Interestingly, we detected cfDNA with ExoQuick and 10\u201320% PEG but not TEI and 5% PEG. Moreover, 10% PEG detection of miR-122 and miR-16 expression was superior to ExoQuick and TEI. Furthermore, in proteomics results it also found the identified proteins better than commercial kits but there was a high level of contamination of other proteins in serum. 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