$PRIOR and $MIX for ABCB1 3435 and 2677 data

From: Mohd Rahimi Date: March 15, 2026 technical Source: mail-archive.com
Greetings, I have a rifampicin PK dataset combining sparse and rich sampling data. The dataset includes ABCB1 3435 and 2677 genotype information, but these data are available only for 70 individuals in the sparse-sampling group, while the remaining 46 individuals in the rich-sampling group have missing genotype data. I attempted to use $PRIOR and $MIX to quantify the effects of ABCB1 3435 and 2677 on the PK parameters of rifampicin, but I am currently encountering a zero-gradient issue. The results are as follows. 0ITERATION NO.: 2 OBJECTIVE VALUE: 273052.291852277 NO. OF FUNC. EVALS.: 0 CUMULATIVE NO. OF FUNC. EVALS.: 30 NPARAMETR: 1.0000E-02 1.0000E-02 1.0000E-02 1.0000E-02 1.0000E-02 1.0000E-02 1.0000E-01 1.0000E-02 1.0000E-02 1.0000E-02 1.0000E-02 PARAMETER: 1.0000E-01 1.0000E-01 1.0000E-01 1.0000E-01 1.0000E-01 1.0000E-01 1.0000E-01 1.0000E-01 1.0000E-01 1.0000E-01 1.0000E-01 GRADIENT: -3.9851E+04 -1.2262E+04 5.1571E+04 -1.9717E+03 -2.1652E+05 -1.6134E+04 -8.0853E+01 NaN NaN NaN and the code I am using: $INPUT ID TIME AMT ODV DV BLQ MDV EVID CMT OCC ABCB11 MISS ABCB12 MDR12 ABCB13 RACE AGE CXR_BASE GENDER WT SMOK $DATA RIF_NEW_02_PGX03.csv IGNORE=# $SUBROUTINE ADVAN2 TRANS2 $PRIOR NWPRI $PK EST = MIXEST IF(MISS.EQ.0.AND.ABCB11.LE.2) ABCB = 1 IF(MISS.EQ.0.AND.ABCB11.EQ.3) ABCB = 0 IF(MISS.EQ.1.AND.MIXNUM.EQ.1) ABCB = 1 IF(MISS.EQ.1.AND.MIXNUM.EQ.2) ABCB = 0 TVCL = THETA(1)*(WT/70)**0.75**ABCB TVV = THETA(2)*(WT/70)**1 TVKA = THETA(3) TVALAG1 = THETA(4) CL = TVCL*EXP(ETA(1)) V = TVV*EXP(ETA(2)) KA = TVKA*EXP(ETA(3)) ALAG1 = TVALAG1*EXP(ETA(4)) S2 = V $MIX NSPOP = 2 P(1) = THETA(7) P(2) = 1-P(1) $ERROR IPRED = LOG(F + 0.000001) IRES = DV-IPRED W = SQRT(THETA(5)**2 + (THETA(6)/F)**2) IF(W.EQ.0) W = 1 IWRES = IRES/W Y = IPRED + W*EPS(1) $THETA (0,0.01) ; TVCL (0,0.01) ; TVV (0,0.01) ; TVKA (0,0.01) ; ALAG1 (0,0.01) ; PROPRUV (0,0.01) ; ADDRUV (0,0.1) ; P (1) ;(0,0.001) ; ABCB $OMEGA 0.01 ; BSVCL (initial estimate) 0.01 ; BSVV 0.01 ; BSVKA 0.01 ; ALAG1 $SIGMA 1 FIX ; ADDRUV (initial estimate) $THETAP 13.8441 FIX ; PRIOR OF Cl $THETAP 76.3173 FIX ; PRIOR OF Vd $THETAP 0.95741 FIX ; PRIOR OF Ka ;$THETAP 0.11603 FIX ; PRIOR OF Tlag $THETAPV 0.1806 FIX ; PRIOR UNCERTAINTY - Cl $THETAPV 0.2489 FIX ; PRIOR UNCERTAINTY - Vd $THETAPV 1.2538 FIX ; PRIOR UNCERTAINTY - Ka ;$THETAPV 0.1183 FIX ; PRIOR UNCERTAINTY - Tlag $ESTIMATION METHOD=COND INTER SIGDIGITS=3 MAXEVAL=9999 PRINT=1 NOABORT $COVARIANCE MATRIX=R ; COVARIANCE STEP $TABLE ID TIME DV IPRED CWRES WRES IWRES PRED NOPRINT ONEHEADER FILE=sdtab560 $TABLE ID TIME DV ETA(1) ETA(2) ETA(3) NOPRINT ONEHEADER FILE=patab560 $TABLE ID TIME AMT ODV DV BLQ MDV EVID CMT OCC ABCB11 MISS ABCB12 MDR12 ABCB13 RACE AGE CXR_BASE GENDER WT SMOK KA CL V NOPRINT ONEHEADER FILE=xptab560 Any input or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as I have been trying to resolve this issue for several weeks. Thank you. *MOHD. RAHIMI BIN MUDA*
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