Conjecture on the limiting genetic composition of an exponentially growing cell population
Conjecture on the limiting genetic composition of an exponentially growing cell population
Let be the set of nucleotides, let be the set of genomic sites, and partition the neutral sites as
For with , write for the mutation rate at sites in , and let be the initial nucleotide at those sites. Let be the tree indexing the random variables , , and , and let denote the population count associated with site at population size .
Limiting composition conjecture. Suppose
for all and with . Then
in distribution, where convergence is in the same sense as in the preceding limit theorem. Here has the distribution specified by the branching-process limit, with ; is an i.i.d. family of geometric random variables with parameter , while is independent of and satisfies ; is independent of if and only if ; and is an i.i.d. family of Poisson random variables with mean
independent of .
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Primary source
David Cheek and Tibor Antal, “Genetic composition of an exponentially growing cell population”, arXiv:1905.12355 (2020).
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