Reply to: Beyond Parametric Assumptions: Unsupervised Methods Enhance DNA Repair Gene Discovery in SMARCAL1

Ninad Oak1, Wenan Chen1, Motomi Mori1

  • 1Ninad Oak, PhD, Department of Oncology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, Wenan Chen, PhD, Division of Computational Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Motomi Mori, PhD, MBA, Department of Biostatistics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, Gang Wu, PhD, Center for Applied Bioinformatics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, Kim E. Nichols, MD, Department of Oncology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, Richa Sharma, MD, Department of Pediatric Hematology Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Cleveland Clinic Children's, Cleaveland, OH.

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