ETHNOPRED: a novel machine learning method for accurate continental and sub-continental ancestry identification and population stratification correction.
Mohsen HajilooYadav SapkotaJohn R. MackeyPaula RobsonRussell GreinerSambasivarao DamarajuPublished in: BMC Bioinform. (2013)
Keyphrases
- machine learning
- high accuracy
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- support vector machine
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- multiresolution
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- differential evolution
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- artificial neural networks
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- feature extraction
- decision trees
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