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Accurate prediction of toxicity peptide and its function using multi-view tensor learning and latent semantic learning framework.

MOTIVATION: Therapeutic peptide is an important ingredient in the treatment of various diseases and drug discovery. The toxicity of peptides is one of the major challenges in peptide drug therapy. With the abundance of therapeutic peptides generated in the post-genomics era, it is a challenge to promptly identify toxicity peptides using computational methods. Although several efforts have been made, few algorithms are designed to identify whether a query peptide exhibits toxicity. Considering the varied levels of biological activities, the toxicity peptides should be further classified into multi-functional peptides. RESULTS: This study introduces a two-level predictor, ToxPre-2L, developed using the multi-view tensor learning and latent semantic learning framework. The proposed method utilized multi-label learning with feature induced labels to avoid the redundancy of information from each view. Then the multi-view tensor learning was employed to establish the latent semantic information among different views, while low-rank constraint learning was leveraged to exploit the correlation information among multi-labels. Finally, we constructed an updated toxicity peptide benchmark dataset to assess the effectiveness of the proposed method. Experimental results demonstrated that ToxPre-2L achieves a better performance than alternative computational methods in the prediction of toxicity peptides and their multi-functional types. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The source code and data of ToxPre-2L can be accessed at http://bliulab.net/ToxPre-2L.

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Digital profiling of dysarthria in late- and early-onset Parkinson's disease.

BackgroundDigital speech analysis affords robust markers of Parkinson's disease (PD). However, most studies target late-onset PD (LOPD), neglecting early-onset PD (EOPD) -an increasingly prevalent subtype. This proof-of-concept study tackles such gap.MethodsWe used machine learning to discriminate persons with EOPD (with symptom onset before age 50) and LOPD (with symptom onset after age 50) from healthy controls (HCs) through prosodic and articulatory features from natural speech.ResultsMaximal classification between patients and HCs was afforded by combined prosodic and articulation features in LOPD (AUC&#x2009;=&#x2009;0.90) and by articulation alone in EOPD (AUC&#x2009;=&#x2009;0.79), with chance-level discrimination between patient groups (AUC&#x2009;=&#x2009;0.55). Motor severity (MDS-UPDRS-III) scores predicted by these features correlated with actual motor severity scores in both LOPD (r&#x2009;=&#x2009;0.52, p&#x2009;<&#x2009;0.001) and EOPD (r&#x2009;=&#x2009;0.27, p&#x2009;<&#x2009;0.001).ConclusionsDigital speech markers offer markers of PD irrespective of age of onset.Plain language summary titleVoice recordings capture motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease irrespective of age of onset.

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Phylogenetic tree information aids supervised learning for predicting protein-protein interaction based on distance matrices.

BACKGROUND: Protein-protein interactions are critical for cellular functions. Recently developed computational approaches for predicting protein-protein interactions utilize co-evolutionary information of the interacting partners, e.g., correlations between distance matrices, where each matrix stores the pairwise distances between a protein and its orthologs from a group of reference genomes. RESULTS: We proposed a novel, simple method to account for some of the intra-matrix correlations in improving the prediction accuracy. Specifically, the phylogenetic species tree of the reference genomes is used as a guide tree for hierarchical clustering of the orthologous proteins. The distances between these clusters, derived from the original pairwise distance matrix using the Neighbor Joining algorithm, form intermediate distance matrices, which are then transformed and concatenated into a super phylogenetic vector. A support vector machine is trained and tested on pairs of proteins, represented as super phylogenetic vectors, whose interactions are known. The performance, measured as ROC score in cross validation experiments, shows significant improvement of our method (ROC score 0.8446) over that of using Pearson correlations (0.6587). CONCLUSION: We have shown that the phylogenetic tree can be used as a guide to extract intra-matrix correlations in the distance matrices of orthologous proteins, where these correlations are represented as intermediate distance matrices of the ancestral orthologous proteins. Both the unsupervised and supervised learning paradigms benefit from the explicit inclusion of these intermediate distance matrices, and particularly so in the latter case, which offers a better balance between sensitivity and specificity in the prediction of protein-protein interactions.

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KG-Microbe: Building modular and scalable knowledge graphs for microbiome and microbial sciences.

BACKGROUND: The integration of many disparate forms of data is essential for understanding the microbial world and its interaction with the environment and human health. Doing so is particularly challenging in the context of microbe-host and microbe-microbe interactions that contribute to health or environmental outcomes. There are thousands of relevant microbial species, and millions of interactions among those microbes and with their environment or host. Integrated information (e.g., about host and microbial physiology, genetics, and metabolism) facilitates deeper understanding of complex mechanisms and helps interpret correlative results. RESULTS: The KG-Microbe construction framework is a novel approach to harmonizing bacterial and archaeal data in the form of a findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable and AI-ready knowledge graph (KG). Starting from a core KG with organismal traits, environments, and growth preferences and the integration of established ontologies, the framework generates a hierarchy of related KGs targeting specific use cases, including the human microbiome in the context of disease, or environmental microbiomes. The framework supports customizable taxa subsets representing communities or clades of interest. Evaluations of the KG-Microbe KGs through a series of competency questions demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the data harmonization, and the utility of the resulting KGs in studies of inflammatory bowel disease and Parkinson's disease. Finally, the predictive and environmental capabilities of the KGs are demonstrated by predicting growth preferences using graph features. CONCLUSIONS: The KG-Microbe framework unifies microbial contexts in a single resource to support integrative analyses across biomedical, host, and environmental domains. KG-Microbe is a flexible, modular enabling technology for humans and machine learning methods to uncover candidate mechanistic explanations of microbial associations.

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GANN: genetic algorithm neural networks for the detection of conserved combinations of features in DNA.

BACKGROUND: The multitude of motif detection algorithms developed to date have largely focused on the detection of patterns in primary sequence. Since sequence-dependent DNA structure and flexibility may also play a role in protein-DNA interactions, the simultaneous exploration of sequence- and structure-based hypotheses about the composition of binding sites and the ordering of features in a regulatory region should be considered as well. The consideration of structural features requires the development of new detection tools that can deal with data types other than primary sequence. RESULTS: GANN (available at http://bioinformatics.org.au/gann) is a machine learning tool for the detection of conserved features in DNA. The software suite contains programs to extract different regions of genomic DNA from flat files and convert these sequences to indices that reflect sequence and structural composition or the presence of specific protein binding sites. The machine learning component allows the classification of different types of sequences based on subsamples of these indices, and can identify the best combinations of indices and machine learning architecture for sequence discrimination. Another key feature of GANN is the replicated splitting of data into training and test sets, and the implementation of negative controls. In validation experiments, GANN successfully merged important sequence and structural features to yield good predictive models for synthetic and real regulatory regions. CONCLUSION: GANN is a flexible tool that can search through large sets of sequence and structural feature combinations to identify those that best characterize a set of sequences.

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Precision Genomics: A Reality Having Universal Impact in a New Era of Psychiatry - Lessons Learned, Past and Present.

Addiction neuroscience explores the complex interplay between genetic, neurobiological, environmental, and socio-spiritual factors underlying substance and behavioral addictions. Over the past three decades, research in this domain has identified critical molecular and epigenetic mechanisms-particularly those affecting dopaminergic signaling and reward pathways-that contribute to both vulnerability and resilience to addictive behaviors. Central to this understanding is the concept of reward deficiency syndrome (RDS), first introduced by Kenneth Blum, which posits that hypodopaminergic functioning predisposes individuals to seek maladaptive rewards. Advances in neurogenetics, including the identification of key polymorphisms such as the DRD2 A1 allele, have paved the way for precision tools like the genetic addiction risk severity (GARS&#xae;) test. This test, alongside pro-dopaminergic nutraceutical interventions like KB220, demonstrates the potential for early detection and individualized treatment of "pre-addiction" risk states. Despite ongoing reliance on opioids for opioid use disorder (OUD), emerging paradigms advocate for dopamine homeostasis through non-addictive, integrative approaches. Furthermore, the integration of whole genome sequencing data can be used for Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS), multi-omics, and machine learning into clinical practice holds promise for advancing personalized medicine in addiction treatment. As the field progresses, addressing health equity and improving genomic representation across populations remain critical goals. This evolving framework underscores the importance of leveraging genomic insights to prevent, predict, and personalize interventions for addiction and mental illness at scale.

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Enhanced identification of key bacterial motility genes via a cross-species genomic hybrid feature machine learning approach.

Efficient and accurate identification of functional genes is critical to biological research, yet traditional single-species approaches are often limited by low efficiency. Previously, we established a novel method for identifying key genes using cross-species protein domain features and machine learning. However, the high multiplicity of gene members associated with specific domains creates a substantial workload for subsequent experimental validation. To address this, this study proposes an enhanced approach that integrates EggNOG-based protein sequence annotation with domain analysis. Unannotated sequences are subsequently analyzed for protein domains, generating a comprehensive "direct gene annotation plus domain" hybrid feature matrix. While the hybrid matrix model yielded comparable predictive accuracy, it significantly enhanced feature resolution: the top 50 predicted features were all known motility-related genes or domains. Furthermore, among the top 100 ranked features, 58 are confirmed to be directly related to motility based on experimental evidence. Although strict genus-level control still yielded 51 confirmed features, excessive taxonomic restriction drastically reduces the number of training genomes, which may paradoxically impair identification efficiency. These results demonstrate that the new method effectively reduces the subsequent experimental workload and enables high-throughput identification of functional genes in a single analysis. With accuracy and efficiency far exceeding those of existing single-species identification methods, it provides a highly efficient solution for mining key genes underlying other complex bacterial phenotypes.

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SIMS: A deep-learning label transfer tool for single-cell RNA sequencing analysis.

Cell atlases serve as vital references for automating cell labeling in new samples, yet existing classification algorithms struggle with accuracy. Here we introduce SIMS (scalable, interpretable machine learning for single cell), a low-code data-efficient pipeline for single-cell RNA classification. We benchmark SIMS against datasets from different tissues and species. We demonstrate SIMS's efficacy in classifying cells in the brain, achieving high accuracy even with small training sets (<3,500 cells) and across different samples. SIMS accurately predicts neuronal subtypes in the developing brain, shedding light on genetic changes during neuronal differentiation and postmitotic fate refinement. Finally, we apply SIMS to single-cell RNA datasets of cortical organoids to predict cell identities and uncover genetic variations between cell lines. SIMS identifies cell-line differences and misannotated cell lineages in human cortical organoids derived from different pluripotent stem cell lines. Altogether, we show that SIMS is a versatile and robust tool for cell-type classification from single-cell datasets.

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Unveiling tumor heterogeneity by single cell RNA-sequencing: From basic considerations to clinical applications.

Tumor heterogeneity-encompassing diverse cellular phenotypes, genomic alterations, and microenvironmental contexts-is a principal barrier to effective cancer therapy. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has transformed our ability to resolve this complexity by capturing transcriptomes at single-cell resolution. Here, we review the technical foundations required for high-quality scRNA-seq studies. We then trace the evolution of scRNA-seq platforms from manual micromanipulation to high-throughput systems, and describe the computational pipelines that enable reliable data interpretation. The application of scRNA-seq is exemplarily shown in the context of lung cancer, where single-cell profiling has revealed (i) the clonal and sub-clonal architecture of tumors, (ii) extensive remodeling of the immune microenvironment, iii) key mechanisms underlying resistance to targeted agents and immune-checkpoint blockade, and (iv) the dynamics of neo-antigen-specific T-cell responses. Integrating machine-learning techniques-such as deep-learning classifiers and graph-based models-with single-cell transcriptomic data has markedly sped up biomarker discovery, produced more accurate risk-stratification scores, and enabled the generation of patient-specific therapeutic predictions. We surveyed the major trial registry ClinicalTrials.gov and identified &#x223c;380&#xa0;ongoing or completed studies that explicitly incorporate scRNA-seq as a correlative or pharmacodynamic endpoint. Overall, the analysis shows that scRNA-seq becomes an increasingly important component of modern trials, providing high-resolution cellular and molecular readouts that complement conventional imaging and bulk-omics endpoints. While key challenges remain, ranging from costs, scalability and need for rigorous validation before routine clinical deployment, ongoing technological advances continue to expand the potential of scRNA-seq as a cornerstone of precision medicine.

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A review on the integration of artificial intelligence into coastal modeling.

With the development of computing technology, mechanistic models are often employed to simulate processes in coastal environments. However, these predictive tools are inevitably highly specialized, involving certain assumptions and/or limitations, and can be manipulated only by experienced engineers who have a thorough understanding of the underlying theories. This results in significant constraints on their manipulation as well as large gaps in understanding and expectations between the developers and practitioners of a model. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are making it possible to integrate machine learning capabilities into numerical modeling systems in order to bridge the gaps and lessen the demands on human experts. The objective of this paper is to review the state-of-the-art in the integration of different AI technologies into coastal modeling. The algorithms and methods studied include knowledge-based systems, genetic algorithms, artificial neural networks, and fuzzy inference systems. More focus is given to knowledge-based systems, which have apparent advantages over the others in allowing more transparent transfers of knowledge in the use of models and in furnishing the intelligent manipulation of calibration parameters. Of course, the other AI methods also have their individual contributions towards accurate and reliable predictions of coastal processes. The integrated model might be very powerful, since the advantages of each technique can be combined.

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A Multi-omics Regulated Cell Death Framework Defines Immune Phenotypes and Guides Precision Therapy in Colorectal Cancer.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is molecularly and immunologically heterogeneous, contributing to variable treatment response. Because regulated cell death (RCD) intersects with tumor metabolism, immune regulation, and therapeutic susceptibility, we built an RCD-centered framework for CRC stratification. Multi-cohort transcriptomic data were used to infer RCD subtypes with non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) and non-negative least squares (NNLS). Genomic, bulk RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq, and spatial transcriptomic datasets were integrated to characterize subtype-associated biology. Machine-learning models were developed for immunotherapy response and survival-risk estimation. Candidate compounds were screened by GDSC2-based drug-sensitivity modeling and molecular docking, and FSTL3 was functionally assessed in vitro. The framework separated CRC samples into two RCD-related phenotypes resembling immune-hot and immune-cold states. RCD1 showed immune activation and higher mutational burden, whereas RCD2 showed immune-suppressed features, intratumoral heterogeneity, and aggressive biology. RCD-associated signatures showed potential for predicting immunotherapy response and survival risk. Dasatinib was prioritized for immune-cold, high-risk tumors, with preliminary evidence supporting its activity in CRC cells, while functional assays suggested a role for FSTL3 in growth, invasion, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, and apoptosis regulation. These findings suggest that RCD-based multi-omics analysis may refine CRC stratification and help generate therapeutic hypotheses.

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Computer-automated dementia screening using a touch-tone telephone.

BACKGROUND: This study investigated the sensitivity and specificity of a computer-automated telephone system to evaluate cognitive impairment in elderly callers to identify signs of early dementia. METHODS: The Clinical Dementia Rating Scale was used to assess 155 subjects aged 56 to 93 years (n = 74, 27, 42, and 12, with a Clinical Dementia Rating Scale score of 0, 0.5, 1, and 2, respectively). These subjects performed a battery of tests administered by an interactive voice response system using standard Touch-Tone telephones. Seventy-four collateral informants also completed an interactive voice response version of the Symptoms of Dementia Screener. RESULTS: Sixteen cognitively impaired subjects were unable to complete the telephone call. Performances on 6 of 8 tasks were significantly influenced by Clinical Dementia Rating Scale status. The mean (SD) call length was 12 minutes 27 seconds (2 minutes 32 seconds). A subsample (n = 116) was analyzed using machine-learning methods, producing a scoring algorithm that combined performances across 4 tasks. Results indicated a potential sensitivity of 82.0% and specificity of 85.5%. The scoring model generalized to a validation subsample (n = 39), producing 85.0% sensitivity and 78.9% specificity. The kappa agreement between predicted and actual group membership was 0.64 (P<.001). Of the 16 subjects unable to complete the call, 11 provided sufficient information to permit us to classify them as impaired. Standard scoring of the interactive voice response-administered Symptoms of Dementia Screener (completed by informants) produced a screening sensitivity of 63.5% and 100% specificity. A lower criterion found a 90.4% sensitivity, without lowering specificity. CONCLUSIONS: Computer-automated telephone screening for early dementia using either informant or direct assessment is feasible. Such systems could provide wide-scale, cost-effective screening, education, and referral services to patients and caregivers.

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Retrieving definitional content for ontology development.

Ontology construction requires an understanding of the meaning and usage of its encoded concepts. While definitions found in dictionaries or glossaries may be adequate for many concepts, the actual usage in expert writing could be a better source of information for many others. The goal of this paper is to describe an automated procedure for finding definitional content in expert writing. The approach uses machine learning on phrasal features to learn when sentences in a book contain definitional content, as determined by their similarity to glossary definitions provided in the same book. The end result is not a concise definition of a given concept, but for each sentence, a predicted probability that it contains information relevant to a definition. The approach is evaluated automatically for terms with explicit definitions, and manually for terms with no available definition.

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Supervised classification for gene network reconstruction.

One of the central problems of functional genomics is revealing gene expression networks - the relationships between genes that reflect observations of how the expression level of each gene affects those of others. Microarray data are currently a major source of information about the interplay of biochemical network participants in living cells. Various mathematical techniques, such as differential equations, Bayesian and Boolean models and several statistical methods, have been applied to expression data in attempts to extract the underlying knowledge. Unsupervised clustering methods are often considered as the necessary first step in visualization and analysis of the expression data. As for supervised classification, the problem mainly addressed so far has been how to find discriminative genes separating various samples or experimental conditions. Numerous methods have been applied to identify genes that help to predict treatment outcome or to confirm a diagnosis, as well as to identify primary elements of gene regulatory circuits. However, less attention has been devoted to using supervised learning to uncover relationships between genes and/or their products. To start filling this gap a machine-learning approach for gene networks reconstruction is described here. This approach is based on building classifiers--functions, which determine the state of a gene's transcription machinery through expression levels of other genes. The method can be applied to various cases where relationships between gene expression levels could be expected.

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Development of CYP3A4 inhibition models: comparisons of machine-learning techniques and molecular descriptors.

Computational models of cytochrome P450 3A4 inhibition were developed based on high-throughput screening data for 4470 proprietary compounds. Multiple models differentiating inhibitors (IC(50) <3 microM) and noninhibitors were generated using various machine-learning algorithms (recursive partitioning [RP], Bayesian classifier, logistic regression, k-nearest-neighbor, and support vector machine [SVM]) with structural fingerprints and topological indices. Nineteen models were evaluated by internal 10-fold cross-validation and also by an independent test set. Three most predictive models, Barnard Chemical Information (BCI)-fingerprint/SVM, MDL-keyset/SVM, and topological indices/RP, correctly classified 249, 248, and 236 compounds of 291 noninhibitors and 135, 137, and 147 compounds of 179 inhibitors in the validation set. Their overall accuracies were 82%, 82%, and 81%, respectively. Investigating applicability of the BCI/SVM model found a strong correlation between the predictive performance and the structural similarity to the training set. Using Tanimoto similarity index as a confidence measurement for the predictions, the limitation of the extrapolation was 0.7 in the case of the BCI/SVM model. Taking consensus of the 3 best models yielded a further improvement in predictive capability, kappa = 0.65 and accuracy = 83%. The consensus model could also be tuned to minimize either false positives or false negatives depending on the emphasis of the screening.

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Development and validation of a machine learning prognostic model based on an epigenomic signature in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

BACKGROUND: In Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC), current prognostic scores are unable to fully capture the biological heterogeneity of the disease. While some approaches investigating the role of multi-omics in PDAC are emerging, the analysis of methylation data is under exploited. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We analyzed CpG sites from two publicly available datasets, the TCGA-PAAD used as discovery set and the CPTAC-PDA as external test set. Single mutations and co-mutation of KRAS and TP53 genes were identified as targets, and differentially methylated CpG sites (DMC) were detected accordingly. We trained and validated Random Forest (RF) models to predict each target. Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve (AUROC) and Area Under the Precision-Recall curve (AUPRC) were used as performance metrics. Then, we performed consensus clustering from the DMCs to identify novel patients' profiles. Finally, we trained and validated a combination of eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGB) and tree models to select an epigenomic prognostic determinant. RESULTS: From 598 DMCs extracted, an RF model predicted KRAS and TP53 co-mutation on the external test set with AUROC of 0.77 and AUPRC of 0.87. The consensus clustering allowed us to identify 4 clusters (C1, C2, C3, and C4) of patients. The C4 cluster captured a subgroup of patients with favorable Overall Survival (OS) with respect to others. The XGB model perfectly predicted C4 vs other clusters on the discovery set. In both cohorts, patients were stratified into two risk groups according to methylation levels of cg16854533, individuated as the most important CpG site. CONCLUSION: We analyzed methylation data to develop a classifier for the TP53 and KRAS mutational status. Four prognostic clusters were pointed out and a prognostic model using a CpG site was validated in an independent cohort. Our results evidence that the proposed use of methylation data facilitates risk stratification for PDAC.

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Prediction of methylated CpGs in DNA sequences using a support vector machine.

DNA methylation plays a key role in the regulation of gene expression. The most common type of DNA modification consists of the methylation of cytosine in the CpG dinucleotide. At the present time, there is no method available for the prediction of DNA methylation sites. Therefore, in this study we have developed a support vector machine (SVM)-based method for the prediction of cytosine methylation in CpG dinucleotides. Initially a SVM module was developed from human data for the prediction of human-specific methylation sites. This module achieved a MCC and AUC of 0.501 and 0.814, respectively, when evaluated using a 5-fold cross-validation. The performance of this SVM-based module was better than the classifiers built using alternative machine learning and statistical algorithms including artificial neural networks, Bayesian statistics, and decision trees. Additional SVM modules were also developed based on mammalian- and vertebrate-specific methylation patterns. The SVM module based on human methylation patterns was used for genome-wide analysis of methylation sites. This analysis demonstrated that the percentage of methylated CpGs is higher in UTRs as compared to exonic and intronic regions of human genes. This method is available on line for public use under the name of Methylator at http://bio.dfci.harvard.edu/Methylator/.

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[Risk assessment in ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHS) using the machine learning system (Decision Master) in 155 in-vitro fertilisations and embryo-transfer (IVF/ET) cycles with a long stimulation protocol].

In 155 selected IVF/ET cycles stimulated with the long protocol 25 cycles with severe OHS are included which turned up later on (purposely overrepresented). An inductive machine learning program is described both in informatics and medical essentials. It is tested whether there exists an algorithm for ruling out the above-mentioned complication in the follicular phase of the same cycle already. By cross validation 89% of the OHS could be predicted and proven by practical rules using hormone and ultrasound values to avoid similar events in ongoing or further cycles.

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