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Current methods for the estimation of reference limits focus either on modelling the age-dependent dynamics of different analytes directly in a prospective setting or the extraction of independent distributions from contaminated data sources, e.g. data with latent heterogeneity due to unlabeled pathologic cases. In this article, we propose a new method to estimate indirect reference limits with non-linear dependencies on covariates from contaminated datasets by combining the framework of mixture models and distributional regression.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Simulation results based on mixtures of Gaussian and gamma distributions suggest accurate approximation of the true quantiles that improves with increasing sample size and decreasing overlap between the mixture components. Due to the high flexibility of the framework, initialization of the algorithm requires careful considerations regarding appropriate starting weights. 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