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Equilibrium correlations in a model for multidimensional epistasis

Biological Physics 2007-05-23 v1 q-bio

Abstract

We investigate a statistical model for multidimensional epistasis. The genotype is devided into subsequences, and within each subsequence mutations which occur in a prescribed order are beneficial. The bit-string model used to represent the genotype, may be cast in the form of a ferromagnetic Ising model with a staggered field. We obtain the actual correlations between mutations at different sites, within an equilibrium population at a given "tolerance," which we define to be the temperature of the statistical ensemble.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0208100,
  title  = {Equilibrium correlations in a model for multidimensional epistasis},
  author = {G. Soyler and A. Erzan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0208100},
  year   = {2007}
}

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3 pages, figures available seperately as .eps files