Fixation probability and the crossing time in the Wright–Fisher multiple alleles model

Wonpyong Gill

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2009, vol. 388, issue 15, 3124-3132

Abstract: The fixation probability and crossing time in the Wright–Fisher multiple alleles model, which describes a finite haploid population, were calculated by switching on an asymmetric sharply-peaked landscape with a positive asymmetric parameter, r, such that the reversal allele of the optimal allele has higher fitness than the optimal allele. The fixation probability, which was evaluated as the ratio of the first arrival time at the reversal allele to the origination time, was double the selective advantage of the reversal allele compared with the optimal allele in the strong selection region, where the fitness parameter, k, is much larger than the critical fitness parameter, kc. The crossing time in a finite population for r>0 and k0 and k≫kc scaled as a power law in the fitness parameter with a similar scaling exponent as the crossing time in an infinite population for r=0, and that the critical fitness parameter decreased with increasing sequence length with a fixed population size.

Keywords: Fixation probability; Wright–Fisher model; Deterministic criterion; Crossing time; Asymmetric sharply-peaked landscape (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.04.021

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