Nonparametric Estimation for Censored Mixture Data With Application to the Cooperative Huntington’s Observational Research Trial
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删失混合数据的非参数估计及亨廷顿病观察研究应用
- 研究问题
- 当事件时间存在右删失、基因型未被直接观察且样本来自多个亚群时，如何估计基因型特定的生存分布并获得有效推断？
- 方法与思路
- 作者提出逆概率加权、增广逆概率加权和非参数插补三类估计方法，无需指定基因型特定密度，并用于亨廷顿病家属样本分析。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，两类既有非参数极大似然估计分别存在低效率和不一致问题；所提方法一致，增广加权估计达到效率界，并给出生存率应用。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对潜在基因型混合的识别依据、删失与抽样机制条件、权重构造及效率界定义，并审查家属样本的选择偏差判断。
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原文摘要
This work presents methods for estimating genotype-specific distributions from genetic epidemiology studies where the event times are subject to right censoring, the genotypes are not directly observed, and the data arise from a mixture of scientifically meaningful subpopulations. Examples of such studies include kin-cohort studies and quantitative trait locus (QTL) studies. Current methods for analyzing censored mixture data include two types of nonparametric maximum likelihood estimators (NPMLEs) which do not make parametric assumptions on the genotype-specific density functions. Although both NPMLEs are commonly used, we show that one is inefficient and the other inconsistent. To overcome these deficiencies, we propose three classes of consistent nonparametric estimators which do not assume parametric density models and are easy to implement. They are based on the inverse probability weighting (IPW), augmented IPW (AIPW), and nonparametric imputation (IMP). The AIPW achieves the efficiency bound without additional modeling assumptions. Extensive simulation experiments demonstrate satisfactory performance of these estimators even when the data are heavily censored. We apply these estimators to the Cooperative Huntington's Observational Research Trial (COHORT), and provide age-specific estimates of the effect of mutation in the Huntington gene on mortality using a sample of family members. The close approximation of the estimated non-carrier survival rates to that of the U.S. population indicates small ascertainment bias in the COHORT family sample. Our analyses underscore an elevated risk of death in Huntington gene mutation carriers compared to non-carriers for a wide age range, and suggest that the mutation equally affects survival rates in both genders. The estimated survival rates are useful in genetic counseling for providing guidelines on interpreting the risk of death associated with a positive genetic testing, and in facilitating future subjects at risk to make informed decisions on whether to undergo genetic mutation testings.