On the number of segregating sites for populations with large family sizes
On the number of segregating sites for populations with large family sizes
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关于大家庭人口隔离点的数量
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发表时间:
2006
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
M. Möhle
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作者:
M. Möhle
We present recursions for the total number, S n , of mutations in a sample of n individuals, when the underlying genealogical tree of the sample is modelled by a coalescent process with mutation rate r>0. The coalescent is allowed to have simultaneous multiple collisions of ancestral lineages, which corresponds to the existence of large families in the underlying population model. For the subclass of Λ-coalescent processes allowing for multiple collisions, such that the measure Λ(dx)/x is finite, we prove that S n /(nr) converges in distribution to a limiting variable, S, characterized via an exponential integral of a certain subordinator. When the measure Λ(dx)/x 2 is finite, the distribution of S coincides with the stationary distribution of an autoregressive process of order 1 and is uniquely determined via a stochastic fixed-point equation of the form with specific independent random coefficients A and B. Examples are presented in which explicit representations for (the density of) S are available. We conjecture that S n /E(S n )→1 in probability if the measure Λ(dx)/x is infinite.