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Table 1 Classification of pigs between RFI groups based on 50 molecular probes expressed in blood

From: Analysis of merged whole blood transcriptomic datasets to identify circulating molecular biomarkers of feed efficiency in growing pigs

Actual class

Nb pigs

Percent correct

Predicted classes

High RFI

Low RFI

Random Forest procedure

High RFI

38

94.7%

36

2

Low RFI

36

97.2%

1

35

Total

74

  

Overall %Correct

96.0%

Gradient Tree Boosting procedure

High RFI

38

100%

38

0

Low RFI

36

100%

0

36

Total

74

  

Overall %Correct

100%

  1. Random forest (RF) and gradient treenet boosting (GTB) algorithms were applied on transcriptomic dataset from the whole blood sampled from 148 pigs of lines divergently selected for residual feed intake (RFI). Pigs were randomly split into training (n = 74) and validation test (n = 74) datasets to evaluate model performance in classifying pigs into low or high RFI groups. Expression levels of 50 molecular probes were considered in the validation set. The model made no error (100% of success) when built by GTB procedure