DNA methylation biomarker selected by an ensemble machine learning approach predicts mortality risk in an HIV-positive veteran population
Shu C, Justice AC, Zhang X, Marconi VC, Hancock DB, Johnson EO, Xu K. DNA methylation biomarker selected by an ensemble machine learning approach predicts mortality risk in an HIV-positive veteran population. Epigenetics 2020, 16: 741-753. PMID: 33092459, PMCID: PMC8216205, DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2020.1824097.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVeterans Aging Cohort StudyMortality risk groupsAging Cohort StudyHigher mortality riskMortality riskRisk groupsCohort studyHigh mortality risk groupLow-mortality risk groupsInflammation response pathwayHIV-positive participantsHuman immunodeficiency virusLow-risk groupImproved life expectancyVACS IndexHIV populationNatural killerImmunodeficiency virusPredictive biomarkersPLWHDNA methylation biomarkersVeteran populationSurvival analysisEpigenome-wide associationHIV