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,
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1 , 0.1 |
Birth and death rates of a cancer cell |
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1 , 10 |
Mean number of exomic mutations acquired per division per daughter cell |
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0.075 |
Probability of a mutation being antigenic (rather than neutral) |
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10–6
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Probability of escape of an antigenic cancer cell into neutrality |
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Population of cancer cells carrying antigenic mutation , with total cancer cell population size
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Population of effector cells of type , with total effector cell population
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,
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0.2 , 0.1 |
Passive recruitment and per-capita death of an effector cell |
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, ,
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—-, —-, 10–3
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Active recruitment, killing and inhibition/exhaustion rates, respectively, for interactions between cancer and effector cells of type
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,
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Antigenicity and immunogenicity, respectively, of antigenic mutation (each drawn from ), with averages over the effector population and
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Site frequency: number of antigenic mutations occurring times |
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Single-cell mutational burden: number of cancer cells with antigenic mutations |
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Set of antigenic and neutral mutations, respectively, carried by a cancer cell
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Total number of all antigenic and neutral mutations: and
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Total antigenic mutational occurrences:
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3 × 104
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Ending cancer population size for stochastic simulations |
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16 |
Maximum time for a simulation |