Cancer initiation with epistatic interactions between driver and passenger mutations.

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We investigate the dynamics of cancer initiation in a mathematical model with one driver mutation and several passenger mutations. Our analysis is based on a multi-type branching process: we model individual cells which can either divide or undergo apoptosis. In the case of a cell division, the two daughter cells can mutate, which potentially confers a change in fitness to the cell. In contrast to previous...

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