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However, the computation of omic biomarkers regarding these diseases has not leveraged this association.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We developed PMGCN, a computational framework that employs optimal percolations on multi-disease gene co-expression networks derived from bulk transcriptomic gene expression profiles to identify a parsimonious set of key nodes as candidate omic biomarkers.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Evaluation of PMGCN on independent clinical studies of four chronic inflammatory diseases demonstrates improved predictive performance evaluated via cross validation with bootstrapping compared to commonly used univariate differentially expressed genes. 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