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A generalized Luria-Delbrück model.
Mathematical biosciences - 1 Oct 2005
Dewanji A, Luebeck E G, Moolgavkar S H
Abstract excerpt
We develop extensions of the Luria-Delbrück model that explicitly consider non-exponential growth of normal cells and a birth-death process with mean exponential or Gompertz growth of mutants. Death of mutant cells can be important in clones arising during cancer progression. The use of a birth-death process for growth of mutant cells, as opposed to a pure birth process as in previous work on the Luria-Delbrück...
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