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. 2025 Oct 10;14:RP103970. doi: 10.7554/eLife.103970

Table 1. Notation and baseline parameter values.

Symbol Baseline Description
b , d 1 , 0.1 Birth and death rates of a cancer cell
λ 1 , 10 Mean number of exomic mutations acquired per division per daughter cell
pa 0.075 Probability of a mutation being antigenic (rather than neutral)
pe 10–6 Probability of escape of an antigenic cancer cell into neutrality
Ci Population of cancer cells carrying antigenic mutation i , with total cancer cell population size C
Ei Population of effector cells of type i , with total effector cell population E
B , D 0.2 , 0.1 Passive recruitment and per-capita death of an effector cell
αi , βi , γi —-, —-, 10–3 Active recruitment, killing and inhibition/exhaustion rates, respectively, for interactions between cancer and effector cells of type i
Ai , Ii Antigenicity and immunogenicity, respectively, of antigenic mutation i (each drawn from Exp(1)), with averages over the effector population A and I
Sj Site frequency: number of antigenic mutations occurring j times
Bk Single-cell mutational burden: number of cancer cells with k antigenic mutations
Ma,,Mn, Set of antigenic and neutral mutations, respectively, carried by a cancer cell
Ma,Mn Total number of all antigenic and neutral mutations: Ma=|Ma,| and Mn=|Mn,|
U Total antigenic mutational occurrences: U=j=1CjSj=k=1MakBk
K 3 × 104 Ending cancer population size for stochastic simulations
Tend 16 Maximum time for a simulation