The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics (응용통계연구)

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Comparison of Trend Tests for Genetic Association on Censored Ages of Onset

미완결 발병연령에 근거한 연관성 추세 검정법의 비교

  • 윤혜경 (가톨릭대학교 의학통계학과) ;
  • 송혜향 (가톨릭대학교 의학통계학과)
  • Published : 2008.12.31
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Abstract

The genetic association test on age of onset trait aims to detect the putative gene by means of linear rank tests for a significant trend of onset distributions with genotypes. However, due to the selective sampling of recruiting subjects with ages less than a pre-specified limit, the genotype groups are subject to substantially different censored distributions and thus this is one reason for the low efficiencies in the linear rank tests. In testing the equality of two survival distributions, log-rank statistic is preferred to the Wilcoxon statistic, when censored observations are nonignorable. Therefore, for more then two groups, we propose a generalized log-rank test for trend as a genetic association test. Monte Carlo studies are conducted to investigate the performances of the test statistics examined in this paper.

발병연령과 이에 관련되었다고 의심되는 좌위와의 연관성이 실제로 존재하는 경우에 유전자형 정보에 따라 발병연령(age of onset) 분포의 추세가 뚜렷하게 나타난다. 그러나 연관성 검정에서 주로 채택하고 있는 발병연령의 상한연령(cutoff age)을 제한하는 표본추출은 유전자형에 따른 여러 군의 미완결 자료의 분포가 다름을 초래하게 되며, 이러한 미완결 분포 차이는 발병연령의 추세 검정에 있어 효율성을 낮추는 원인이 된다. 일반적으로 두 군의 경우에 그 대책으로써 윌콕슨(Wilcoxon) 통계량보다는 미완결 자료의 분포가 다름에 영향을 덜 받는다고 알려진 로그순위(log-rank) 통계량을 사용한다. 본 논문에서는 로그순위 통계량 적용을 유전자형에 따른 여러 군의 경우로 확장하여 Jones와 Browley (1989)에 언급된 일반화 로그순위 추세 검정통계량(generalized log-rank statistic for trend)을 제안하며, 연관성 연구에서 이 검정통계량과 여러 다른 추세 검정통계량의 효율성을 모의실험으로 알아본다.

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