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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 25.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Epidemiol. 2008 May;32(4):350–360. doi: 10.1002/gepi.20309

TABLE III.

Predictors with replicable effects and their importance ranks in data sets 1 and 2 from Random Forests arid RuleFit

Rank in Random
Forests
Rank in RuleFit
Predictor Data
set 1
Data
set 2
Data
set 1
Data
set 2
Age 1 1 1 1
Serum glucose 2 2 3 3
BMI 3 4 2 2
HDL-C 4 3 14 4
Fibrinogen 8 8 5 7
Homocysteine 7 5 13 5
log(Lp(a)) 11 9 8 12
Systolic blood pressure 5 6 7 25
log(triglyceride) 6 7 15 20
Cholesterol 10 11 28 14
Sex 12 16 20 16
LDL-C particle size 13 14 9 41
NOS3_rs1800780 16 47 31 34
GPR35_rs3749172 19 41 38 45

The rank is based on the total of 304 variables including 287 tagSNPs and 17 risk factors. BMI, body mass index; HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism.