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Family-based association test for time-to-onset data with time-dependent differences between the hazard functions.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Feb 2006
Jiang Hongyu, Harrington David, Raby Benjamin A, Bertram Lars, Blacker Deborah, Weiss Scott T, Lange Christoph
Abstract excerpt
In genetic association studies, the differences between the hazard functions for the individual genotypes are often time-dependent. We address the non-proportional hazards data by using the weighted logrank approach by Fleming and Harrington [1981]:Commun Stat-Theor M 10:763-794. We introduce a weighted FBAT-Logrank whose weights are based on a non-parametric estimator for the genetic marker distribution function...
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