Random forest Gini importance favours SNPs with large minor allele frequency: impact, sources and recommendations.

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The use of random forests is increasingly common in genetic association studies. The variable importance measure (VIM) that is automatically calculated as a by-product of the algorithm is often used to rank polymorphisms with respect to their ability to predict the investigated phenotype. Here, we investigate a characteristic of this methodology that may be considered as an important pitfall, namely that common...

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