Asymptotic sampling formulae for -coalescents

DOI10.1214/13-AIHP546zbMATH Open1321.60146arXiv1201.6512MaRDI QIDQ405486FDOQ405486

Nathanaël Berestycki, Vlada Limic, Julien Berestycki

Publication date: 5 September 2014

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Probabilités et Statistiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a robust method which translates information on the speed of coming down from infinity of a genealogical tree into sampling formulae for the underlying population. We apply these results to population dynamics where the genealogy is given by a Lambda-coalescent. This allows us to derive an exact formula for the asymptotic behavior of the site and allele frequency spectrum and the number of segregating sites, as the sample size tends to infinity. Some of our results hold in the case of a general Lambda-coalescent that comes down from infinity, but we obtain more precise information under a regular variation assumption. In this case, we obtain results of independent interest for the time at which a mutation uniformly chosen at random was generated. This exhibits a phase transition at alpha=3/2, where alpha in(1,2) is the exponent of regular variation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6512

zbMATH Keywords

population dynamicsgenetic variationsampling formulae\(\varLambda\)-coalescentsexchangeable coalescentsinfinite allele model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Limit theorems in probability theory (60F99)

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