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Selection of models for the analysis of risk-factor trees: leveraging biological knowledge to mine large sets of risk factors with application to microbiome data.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 15 May 2015
Zhang Qunyuan, Abel Haley, Wells Alan, Lenzini Petra, Gomez Felicia, Province Michael A, Templeton Alan A, Weinstock George M, Salzman Nita H, Borecki Ingrid B
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MOTIVATION: Establishment of a statistical association between microbiome features and clinical outcomes is of growing interest because of the potential for yielding insights into biological mechanisms and pathogenesis. Extracting microbiome features that are relevant for a disease is challenging and existing variable selection methods are limited due to large number of risk factor variables from microbiome...
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