Recapitulation of Ayurveda constitution types by machine learning of phenotypic traits.

ABSTRACT: In Ayurveda system of medicine individuals are classified into seven constitution types, "Prakriti", for assessing disease susceptibility and drug responsiveness. Prakriti evaluation involves clinical examination including questions about physiological and behavioural traits. A need was felt to develop models for accurately predicting Prakriti classes that have been shown to exhibit molecular differences. The present study was carried out on data of phenotypic attributes in 147 healthy individuals of three extreme Prakriti types, from a genetically homogeneous population of Western India. Unsupervised and supervised machine learning approaches were used to infer inherent structure of the data, and for feature selection and building classification models for Prakriti respectively. These mod

SUBMITTER: Tiwari P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5628820 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature