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When the cases were pooled (n = 67) and subjected to classification prediction, the overall accuracy of assignment to the appropriate trial arm was 84% when lactoferrin, CD24, and LCN2 were used as the predictor gene set (inclusion of MMP-9 slightly reduced the accuracy of cross-validation).
The prevalence of obesity among US children is approximately of 22-30% and has increased at an accelerating rate in the past several years [ 18 19 20 ] ; the prevalence of obesity is > 30% in some pediatric populations [ 20 21 ] . Obesity in childhood is associated with obesity in adulthood [ 22 23 24 25 ] , and is a predictor of all causes of obesity-associated mortality during adulthood, particularly mortality from cardiovascular diseases, which are independent of adult weight [ 24 25 ] . Epidemiologic evidence supports the theory that the relation between obesity and disease risk begins early in life.
Also, several of our predictor variables were based upon self-report, and such self-report may be influenced by cognitive status.
Several retrospective analyses [ 1 2 ] using a variety of chemotherapies have consistently resulted in first-cycle nadir ANC as a primary predictor of neutropenia-related events in patients with breast cancer.
Given the 100 genes selected, methods such as principal component analysis, partial least-square regression or composite covariate predictor can be used to further reduce the gene dimension to two or three dimensions by taking linear combinations of the gene expression levels.
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