Biomedical subjects

Thomas Nagylaki

Publications and source records attributed to Thomas Nagylaki.

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PubMed2006

Evolution under the multiallelic Levene model.

The evolution of the multiallelic Levene model is investigated. New sufficient conditions for nonexistence of a completely polymorphic equilibrium and for global loss of an allele and information on which allele(s) will be lost are deduced from some new results on multidimensional recursion relations. In the absence of dominance, a more detailed analysis is presented. Sufficient conditions for global fixation of a particular allele are established. When the number of alleles equals the number of demes, necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an isolated, globally asymptotically stable, completely polymorphic equilibrium point are derived, and this equilibrium is explicitly determined. Three examples, one with arbitrarily many alleles and two with three alleles, illustrate the theory.

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PubMed2005

Multiallelic selection polymorphism.

The existence and stability of an internal (i.e., completely polymorphic) equilibrium for viability selection at a single multiallelic locus is investigated. Generations are discrete and nonoverlapping; the population is panmictic, monoecious, and diploid. Various necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an internal equilibrium are established and applied to the loss of alleles. Some necessary conditions for the existence of an asymptotically stable internal equilibrium are also established. All these conditions are simpler and yield general biological conclusions more easily than the classical necessary and sufficient conditions.

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PubMed2005

A stochastic model for a progressive chronic disease.

For many progressive chronic diseases, there exist useful prognostic indicators for the course of the disease and the survival of the patient. The evolution of such an indicator is modelled as a monotone transformation of a pure birth process with killing. Explicit formulas are derived for the probability distribution of this process at an arbitrary time, the distribution of the first-passage times, the joint distribution of the survival time and the maximum of the process, and the marginals of this joint distribution. In two examples, the general formulas are evaluated in closed form.

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PubMed2002

When and where was the most recent common ancestor?

The structured coalescent is investigated for single-locus, digenic samples in the diffusion limit of the unidimensional stepping-stone model for homogeneous, isotropic migration and random genetic drift. Let T denote the scaled time to the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of the two genes, and let Z designate the scaled deviation of the position of the MRCA from the average position of the two genes. The joint probability density of T and Z is evaluated explicitly. Both the marginal and conditional distributions of T have infinite expectation, as does the marginal distribution of Z. Conditioned on T = tau, the distribution of Z is Gaussian with mean zero and variance 2tau. The main results are extended to anisotropic migration. The results establish the existence of and define in the diffusion limit a retrospective stochastic process for digenic samples in one spatial dimension.

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