The Accumulation of Beneficial Mutations and Convergence to a Poisson Process

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Hauptverfasser: Udomchatpitak, Nantawat, Schweinsberg, Jason
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author Udomchatpitak, Nantawat
Schweinsberg, Jason
author_facet Udomchatpitak, Nantawat
Schweinsberg, Jason
contents We consider a model of a population with fixed size $N$, which is subjected to an unlimited supply of beneficial mutations at a constant rate $μ_N$. Individuals with $k$ beneficial mutations have the fitness $(1+s_N)^k$. Each individual dies at rate 1 and is replaced by a random individual chosen with probability proportional to its fitness. We show that when $μ_N \ll 1/(N \log N)$ and $N^{-η} \ll s_N \ll 1$ for some $η< 1$, the fixation times of beneficial mutations, after a time scaling, converge to the times of a Poisson process, even though for some choices of $s_N$ and $μ_N$ satisfying these conditions, there will sometimes be multiple beneficial mutations with distinct origins in the population, competing against each other.
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spellingShingle The Accumulation of Beneficial Mutations and Convergence to a Poisson Process
Udomchatpitak, Nantawat
Schweinsberg, Jason
Probability
Populations and Evolution
92D15 (Primary) 60J27, 60J80, 92D25 (Secondary)
We consider a model of a population with fixed size $N$, which is subjected to an unlimited supply of beneficial mutations at a constant rate $μ_N$. Individuals with $k$ beneficial mutations have the fitness $(1+s_N)^k$. Each individual dies at rate 1 and is replaced by a random individual chosen with probability proportional to its fitness. We show that when $μ_N \ll 1/(N \log N)$ and $N^{-η} \ll s_N \ll 1$ for some $η< 1$, the fixation times of beneficial mutations, after a time scaling, converge to the times of a Poisson process, even though for some choices of $s_N$ and $μ_N$ satisfying these conditions, there will sometimes be multiple beneficial mutations with distinct origins in the population, competing against each other.
title The Accumulation of Beneficial Mutations and Convergence to a Poisson Process
topic Probability
Populations and Evolution
92D15 (Primary) 60J27, 60J80, 92D25 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01999