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Power of data mining methods to detect genetic associations and interactions.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2011
Molinaro Annette M, Carriero Nicholas, Bjornson Robert, Hartge Patricia, Rothman Nathaniel, Chatterjee Nilanjan
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BACKGROUND: Genetic association studies, thus far, have focused on the analysis of individual main effects of SNP markers. Nonetheless, there is a clear need for modeling epistasis or gene-gene interactions to better understand the biologic basis of existing associations. Tree-based methods have been widely studied as tools for building prediction models based on complex variable interactions. An understanding of...
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