Universal asymptotic clone size distribution for general population growth
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Publication:505474
DOI10.1007/S11538-016-0221-XzbMATH Open1357.92049arXiv1604.04936OpenAlexW2964137854WikidataQ39264185 ScholiaQ39264185MaRDI QIDQ505474FDOQ505474
Authors: Michael D. Nicholson, Tibor Antal 
Publication date: 25 January 2017
Published in: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Deterministically growing (wild-type) populations which seed stochastically developing mutant clones have found an expanding number of applications from microbial populations to cancer. The special case of exponential wild-type population growth, usually termed the Luria-Delbr"uck or Lea-Coulson model, is often assumed but seldom realistic. In this article we generalise this model to different types of wild-type population growth, with mutants evolving as a birth-death branching process. Our focus is on the size distribution of clones - that is the number of progeny of a founder mutant - which can be mapped to the total number of mutants. Exact expressions are derived for exponential, power-law and logistic population growth. Additionally for a large class of population growth we prove that the long time limit of the clone size distribution has a general two-parameter form, whose tail decays as a power-law. Considering metastases in cancer as the mutant clones, upon analysing a data-set of their size distribution, we indeed find that a power-law tail is more likely than an exponential one.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04936
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Medical applications (general) (92C50) Applications of branching processes (60J85) Physiological, cellular and medical topics (92C99) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)
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