A Novel Mathematical Approach to Define the Genes/SNPs Conferring Risk or Protection in Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Based on Auto Contractive Map Neural Networks and Graph Theory

Algorithm 1

Pruning algorithm.

Rank = 0;

Do

{

Rank⁺⁺;

Consider_All_Nodes_with_The_Minimum_Number_of_Links ();

Delete_These_Links ();

Assign_a_Rank_To_All_Nodes_Without_Link (Rank);

Update_The_New_Graph ();

Check_Number_of_Links ();

} while at_least_a_link_is_present