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To help enable such discoveries, we focus on testing the association between the cumulative effect of multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a particular genomic region and a drug response of interest. However, the currently existing methods are either computational inefficient or not able to control type I error and provide decent power for whole exome or genome analysis in Pharmacogenetics (PGx) studies with small sample sizes.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>In this article, we propose the Composite Kernel Association Test (CKAT), a flexible and robust kernel machine-based approach to jointly test the genetic main effect and SNP-treatment interaction effect for SNP-sets in Pharmacogenetics (PGx) assessments embedded within randomized clinical trials. An analytic procedure is developed to accurately calculate the P-value so that computationally extensive procedures (e.g. permutation or perturbation) can be avoided. We evaluate CKAT through extensive simulation studies and application to the gene-level association test of the reduction in Clostridium difficile infection recurrence in patients treated with bezlotoxumab. The results demonstrate that the proposed CKAT controls type I error well for PGx studies, is efficient for whole exome\/genome association analysis and provides better power performance than existing methods across multiple scenarios.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The R package CKAT is publicly available on CRAN https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/CKAT\/.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btaa125","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,19]],"date-time":"2020-02-19T20:43:29Z","timestamp":1582145009000},"page":"3162-3168","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Composite Kernel Association Test (CKAT) for SNP-set joint assessment of genotype and genotype-by-treatment interaction in Pharmacogenetics studies"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"36","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8869-8671","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences , Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ 07065, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7762-3949","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ni","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biostatistics , Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Devan V","family":"Mehrotra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences , Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Inc., North Wales, PA 19454, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Judong","family":"Shen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences , Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ 07065, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023013111532450100_btaa125-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"366","DOI":"10.1002\/gepi.21901","article-title":"Kernel approach for modeling interaction effects in genetic association studies of complex quantitative traits","volume":"39","author":"Broadaway","year":"2015","journal-title":"Genet. 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