Non-parametric estimation of survival in age-dependent genetic disease and application to the transthyretin-related hereditary amyloidosis.

In genetic diseases with variable age of onset, survival function estimation for the mutation carriers as well as estimation of the modifying factors effects are essential to provide individual risk assessment, both for mutation carriers management and prevention strategies. In practice, this surviv...

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Main Authors: Flora Alarcon, Violaine Planté-Bordeneuve, Malin Olsson, Grégory Nuel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6155453?pdf=render