Asymptotics of Iterated Branching Processes

DOI10.1239/JAP/1253279859MaRDI QIDQ3182439zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Didier Piau

Publication date 8 October 2009

Published in Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510037

zbMATH Keywords

branching processgenetic diseasetrinucleotide repeat expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Applications of branching processes (60J85) Biochemistry, molecular biology (92C40) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10)

Abstract: We study the iterated Galton-Watson process (IGW), possibly with thinning, introduced by Gawe{l}and Kimmel to model the number of repeats of DNA triplets during some genetic disorders. If the process involves some thinning, then extinction and explosion can have positive probability simultaneously. If the underlying (simple) Galton-Watson process is nondecreasing with mean m, then, conditionally on the explosion, the logarithm of the population of the IGW at time n+1 is equivalent to log(m) times the population at time n, almost surely. This simplifies arguments of Gawe{l}and Kimmel, and confirms and extends a conjecture of Pakes.

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