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Family health history (FHx) is an effective tool for identifying patients at risk of hereditary cancer. Hereditary cancer clinical practice guidelines (CPG) contain criteria used to evaluate FHx and to make re...
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The causative role of the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-6 in prostate cancer progression has been well established at molecular level. However, whether and how IL-6 may play a role in prostate cancer risk and d...
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Open AccessMetadata map** and reuse in caBIG™
This paper proposes that interoperability across biomedical databases can be improved by utilizing a repository of Common Data Elements (CDEs), UML model class-attributes and simple lexical algorithms to facil...
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Searching for Meaningful Feature Interactions with Backward-Chaining Rule Induction
Exploring the vast number of possible feature interactions in domains such as gene expression microarray data is an onerous task. We propose Backward-Chaining Rule Induction (BCRI) as a semi-supervised mechani...