Evaluating the ability of tree-based methods and logistic regression for the detection of SNP-SNP interaction

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 360-369

  García Magariños, Manuel ^a   López De Ullibarri, Iñaki ^b   Cao, Ricardo ^b   Salas, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autosomal SNPs; CART; Complex diseases; Epistasis; Gene gene interaction; Logistic regression; Missing data; Random forest

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MACHINE LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM FOREST; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 65449132029     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2009.00511.x     Document Type: Article

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