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Here we showed that promoter methylation is associated with advanced stage of the disease, RARB and BRCA1 promoter methylation predict a worse prognosis, and the HIC1 and APC promoter methylation is frequently associated with MSI.
Some studies claimed that HER-2 / neu status was an independent predictive factor in the case of breast cancer, whereas other studies could not confirm this [ 6 14 16 19 29 30 ] . It is certainly of great interest to the clinician that only two out of five studies including more than 100 patients and with a follow-up period of at least 3 years attributed some prognostic value to HER-2 / neu amplification among patients with NNBC [ 6 7 16 19 28 ] . Almost all of the studies that dealt with HER-2 / neu status and DFS, as well as OS, showed no benefit of this oncogene in the prognosis of NNBC patients.
Excessive antimalarial drug use is costly, propels the emergence of drug resistant parasites, speeds the obsolescence of affordable drugs and retards malaria control [ 6 ] . Prompt diagnosis and effective treatment of malaria improves prognosis [ 2 ] . In the absence of diagnostic microscopy in resource poor, remote villages of tribal forested belt of central India, the detection of P. falciparum histidine rich protein 2 (Pf HRP-2) in a blood specimen is one method by which expeditious diagnosis of falciparum malaria can be made on the spot [ 7 8 ] . Recently introduced rapid malaria test, Determine™ malaria pf (Abbott Laboratories, Japan) have been evaluated for its effectiveness in detecting P. falciparum malaria in Philippines [ 9 ] and in central India [ 10 ] .
The rather remarkable conclusion of this analysis is that there is sufficient information in a single gene expression time point of less than 5 dozen genes to provide perfect prognosis (out to ten years) and near-perfect diagnosis for this set of donors.
We wished to see if the neural network strategy, of train, test, differentiate, retrain on the reduced gene set, and retest, could produce any useful result with respect to prognosis on an individual basis.
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