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The common ancestor type distribution of a $\Lambda$-Wright-Fisher process with selection and mutation

Probability 2020-03-17 v3 Populations and Evolution

Abstract

Using graphical methods based on a `lookdown' and pruned version of the {\em ancestral selection graph}, we obtain a representation of the type distribution of the ancestor in a two-type Wright-Fisher population with mutation and selection, conditional on the overall type frequency in the old population. This extends results from Lenz, Kluth, Baake, and Wakolbinger (Theor. Pop. Biol., 103 (2015), 27-37) to the case of heavy-tailed offspring, directed by a reproduction measure Λ\Lambda. The representation is in terms of the equilibrium tail probabilities of the line-counting process LL of the graph. We identify a strong pathwise Siegmund dual of LL, and characterise the equilibrium tail probabilities of LL in terms of hitting probabilities of the dual process.

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@article{arxiv.1603.03605,
  title  = {The common ancestor type distribution of a $\Lambda$-Wright-Fisher process with selection and mutation},
  author = {Ellen Baake and Ute Lenz and Anton Wakolbinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.03605},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

minor improvements in presentation; Electron. Commun. Probab., in press

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