Lack of sufficiently strong informative features limits the potential of gene expression analysis as predictive tool for many clinical classification problems.

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Published in BMC Bioinformatics on December 01, 2011

Authors

Kenneth R Hess1, Caimiao Wei, Yuan Qi, Takayuki Iwamoto, W Fraser Symmans, Lajos Pusztai

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biostatistics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA.

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