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A random forest approach to the detection of epistatic interactions in case-control studies.
BMC bioinformatics - 30 Jan 2009
Jiang Rui, Tang Wanwan, Wu Xuebing, Fu Wenhui
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BACKGROUND: The key roles of epistatic interactions between multiple genetic variants in the pathogenesis of complex diseases notwithstanding, the detection of such interactions remains a great challenge in genome-wide association studies. Although some existing multi-locus approaches have shown their successes in small-scale case-control data, the "combination explosion" course prohibits their applications to...
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