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    • Bioinformatics
    • Machine Learning

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    • Confounding factors like population structure complicate genome-wide association studies (GWAS).
    • Direct application of machine learning in GWAS is challenging due to these confounders.
    • Effective confounder correction methods are needed for biological data analysis.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose a novel method for correcting confounding factors in biological data.
    • To enhance the performance of machine learning models in the presence of confounders.
    • To improve the accuracy of genomic data analysis for biological problem-solving.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed Orthogonal Projection Correction (OPC) to decompose features into confounding and non-confounding components.
    • Utilized prior knowledge to define the confounder space for projection.
    • Proposed ProSVM, integrating OPC with Support Vector Machines for classification.
    • Demonstrated that the OPC procedure is kernelizable.

    Main Results:

    • Orthogonal Projection Correction effectively corrects for confounding variables in genomic datasets.
    • The ProSVM method showed improved performance in tumor diagnosis using multi-lab samples.
    • Phenotype prediction accuracy was enhanced in the presence of population structure.

    Conclusions:

    • Orthogonal Projection Correction is a viable method for mitigating confounder effects in genomic studies.
    • The proposed ProSVM offers a robust approach for classification tasks with confounding data.
    • This work advances the application of machine learning in genomics by addressing critical data challenges.