What makes a good prediction? Feature importance and beginning to open the black box of machine learning in genetics

AM Musolf, ER Holzinger, JD Malley, JE Bailey-Wilson - Human Genetics, 2022 - Springer
Genetic data have become increasingly complex within the past decade, leading
researchers to pursue increasingly complex questions, such as those involving epistatic …

Revisiting genome-wide association studies from statistical modelling to machine learning

S Sun, B Dong, Q Zou - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Over the last decade, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have discovered thousands
of genetic variants underlying complex human diseases and agriculturally important traits …

Factors affecting the accuracy of genomic selection for agricultural economic traits in maize, cattle, and pig populations

H Zhang, L Yin, M Wang, X Yuan, X Liu - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Genomic Selection (GS) has been proved to be a powerful tool for estimating genetic values
in plant and livestock breeding. Newly developed sequencing technologies have …

Application of SVR-Mediated GWAS for Identification of Durable Genetic Regions Associated with soybean seed quality traits

M Yoosefzadeh-Najafabadi, S Torabi, D Tulpan… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Soybean (Glycine max L.) is an important food-grade strategic crop worldwide because of its
high seed protein and oil contents. Due to the negative correlation between seed protein …

Translational biomarkers in the era of precision medicine

L Bravo-Merodio, A Acharjee, D Russ, V Bisht… - Advances in clinical …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this chapter we discuss the past, present and future of clinical biomarker development. We
explore the advent of new technologies, paving the way in which health, medicine and …

Genome-wide association study of milk components in Chinese Holstein cows using single nucleotide polymorphism

T Wang, J Li, X Gao, W Song, C Chen, D Yao, J Ma… - Livestock Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Genome-wide association study (GWAS) has been widely utilized to identify candidate
genes and causal loci for important traits in farm animals. In this study, we performed a …

Development and application of a genetic algorithm for variable optimization and predictive modeling of five-year mortality using questionnaire data

LJ Adams, G Bello… - Bioinformatics and biology …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The problem of selecting important variables for predictive modeling of a specific outcome of
interest using questionnaire data has rarely been addressed in clinical settings. In this study …

Brief survey on machine learning in epistasis

D Chicco, T Faultless - Epistasis: Methods and Protocols, 2021 - Springer
In biology, the term “epistasis” indicates the effect of the interaction of a gene with another
gene. A gene can interact with an independently sorted gene, located far away on the …

Deep Learning for Efficient GWAS Feature Selection

K Li - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.15055, 2023 - arxiv.org
Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) face unique challenges in the era of big
genomics data, particularly when dealing with ultra-high-dimensional datasets where the …

Sequential forward floating selection with two selection criteria

D Setiawan, WA Kusuma… - … Conference on Advanced …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Feature selection has been an active area of research for decades. In 1977, Thomas M.
Cover and Jan M. Van Capenhout showed that only exhaustive search can guarantee the …