A hierarchical extension scheme for solutions of the Wright-Fisher model

DOI10.4310/CMS.2016.V14.N4.A11zbMATH Open1364.35164arXiv1406.5152OpenAlexW1663330788MaRDI QIDQ305082FDOQ305082

Authors: Julian Hofrichter, Tat Dat Tran, Jürgen Jost 

Publication date: 26 August 2016

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a global and hierarchical scheme for the forward Kolmogorov (Fokker-Planck) equation of the diffusion approximation of the Wright-Fisher model of population genetics. That model describes the random genetic drift of several alleles at the same locus in a population. The key of our scheme is to connect the solutions before and after the loss of an allele. Whereas in an approach via stochastic processes or partial differential equations, such a loss of an allele leads to a boundary singularity, from a biological or geometric perspective, this is a natural process that can be analyzed in detail. Our method depends on evolution equations for the moments of the process and a careful analysis of the boundary flux.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.5152

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zbMATH Keywords

Wright-Fisher modelforward Kolmogorov equationhierarchical solutionrandom genetic drift

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65)

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