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. 2011 Feb 18;6(2):e17258. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017258

Table 2. Disease candidate gene prediction.

Alzheimer's Schizophrenia Parkinson's Autism OMIM
Optimum List from GO (ROC AUC) 0.78 0.73 0.73 0.71 0.76+/−0.22
Machine Learning (ROC AUC) 0.74 0.69 0.71 0.67

Table 2: We predicted disease genes using the optimal gene ranking based on GO and then validated using disease gene candidate sets (top). These ROC results compare favorably to predicting candidate genes using a strongly performing protein interaction network and a powerful gene function prediction algorithm (bottom). OMIM disease gene sets are too small for cross-validation using a gene function prediction algorithm.