Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-6-2016

Publication Title

BioData Mining

Department

Geisel School of Medicine

Abstract

Identifying gene-gene interactions is essential to understand disease susceptibility and to detect genetic architectures underlying complex diseases. Here, we aimed at developing a permutation-based methodology relying on a machine learning method, random forest (RF), to detect gene-gene interactions. Our approach called permuted random forest (pRF) which identified the top interacting single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) pairs by estimating how much the power of a random forest classification model is influenced by removing pairwise interactions.

DOI

10.1186/s13040-016-0093-5

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