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Uncovering High-Order Epistatic Interactions in GWAS via a Machine Learning-Based Feature Engineering Framework

Aug 2026 · bioRxiv · 0 citations · 10 references
Biology

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A novel tree-based feature engineering framework that uses Classification and Regression Trees (CART) to explicitly encode high-order interaction decision paths as dummy variables that significantly improves classification accuracy and model interpretability compared to using the original feature space alone is proposed.

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