Novel biomarker genes which distinguish between smokers and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with machine learning approach

Abstract Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is combination of progressive lung diseases. The diagnosis of COPD is generally based on the pulmonary function testing, however, difficulties underlie in prognosis of smokers or early stage of COPD patients due to the complexity and h...

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Main Authors: Kazushi Matsumura, Shigeaki Ito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-02-01
Series:BMC Pulmonary Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-020-1062-9