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  • Computational Biology
  • Neuroscience

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  • Finite Markov chains model health state transitions, but covariate effects can be challenging to estimate with many covariates or rare transitions.
  • Existing methods struggle with complex models involving numerous covariates and limited transition data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and demonstrate a method for estimating specific covariate effects in Markov chains while adjusting for multiple other covariates.
  • To apply multidimensional dimension reduction to simplify complex covariate adjustments in health state transition models.

Main Methods:

  • Employs multidimensional dimension reduction applied to adjustment covariates in a multinomial logistic regression framework for transition probabilities.
  • Uses an iterative matrix product estimation algorithm, where one matrix is fixed while the other is estimated.
  • Applies the method to estimate the effect of Apolipoprotein-E (APOE) gene alleles on cognitive transitions in a cohort study.

Main Results:

  • Successfully estimated the effect of APOE gene alleles on transitions from normal cognition to mild cognitive impairment and dementia.
  • Demonstrated the feasibility of adjusting for eight covariates to isolate the impact of specific genetic factors.
  • The algorithm effectively handles complex Markov chains with potential absorption states.

Conclusions:

  • Multidimensional dimension reduction offers a powerful approach to disentangle specific covariate effects in complex health state transition models.
  • This method enhances the ability to study genetic influences, such as APOE, on neurodegenerative disease progression.
  • The BRAiNS cohort data provided a valuable real-world application for validating the proposed statistical technique.