Formal concept analysis for mining hypermethylated genes in breast cancer tumor subtypes

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to show the use of formal concept analysis (FCA) as data mining approach for mining the common hypermethylated genes between breast cancer subtypes, by extracting formal concepts which representing sets of significant hypermethylated genes for each breast cancer subtypes, then the formal context is built which leading to construct a concept lattice which is composed of formal concepts. This lattice can be used as knowledge discovery and knowledge representation therefore, becoming more interesting for the biologists.