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Selecting Multiple Biomarker Subsets with Similarly Effective Binary Classification Performances
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A Multi-Biomarker Score for a Global Approach of Risk: Time for a Change?
Gilles Montalescot1, Paul Guedeney1, Jan Tijssen2
1Sorbonne Université, ACTION Study Group, INSERM UMRS_1166, Institut de cardiologie, Pitié Salpêtrière (AP-HP), Paris, France.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
|August 25, 2022
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