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SUBMITTER: Kim Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2795965 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Yoonhee Y Wojciechowski Robert R Sung Heejong H Mathias Rasika A RA Wang Li L Klein Alison P AP Lenroot Rhoshel K RK Malley James J Bailey-Wilson Joan E JE
BMC proceedings 20091215
Random forests (RF) is one of a broad class of machine learning methods that are able to deal with large-scale data without model specification, which makes it an attractive method for genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The performance of RF and other association methods in the presence of interactions was evaluated using the simulated data from Genetic Analysis Workshop 16 Problem 3, with knowledge of the major causative markers, risk factors, and their interactions in the simulated traits ...[more]