A random forest approach to capture genetic effects in the presence of population structure.

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The accurate mapping of causal variants in genome-wide association studies requires the consideration of both, confounding factors (for example, population structure) and nonlinear interactions between individual genetic variants. Here, we propose a method termed 'mixed random forest' that simultaneously accounts for population structure and captures nonlinear genetic effects. We test the model in simulation...

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