Dear Mohd,

This one I am not sure about but you might want to try use the mixnum in every of the four IF statements. This way there may be a gradient for all subjects. Please refer to our model at https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1002%2Fpsp4.12140&file=psp412140-sup-0001-suppinfoS01.docx for an example that did work with mixnum and a covariate driven assignment together. 

I do not know about the impact of using a prior in this setting. An option would be to first test without.

Hope this helps,
Jeroen

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Op 15 mrt 2026 om 20:49 heeft Mohd Rahimi <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven:


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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