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Recurrent mutation in the ancestry of a rare variant by Wakeley, John, Fan, Wai-Tong (Louis), Koch, Evan, Sunyaev, Shamil

“…Abstract Recurrent mutation produces multiple copies of the same allele which may be co-segregating in a population. Yet, most analyses of allele-frequency or…”
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Bursts of coalescence within population pedigrees whenever big families occur by Diamantidis, Dimitrios, Fan, Wai-Tong Louis, Birkner, Matthias, Wakeley, John

“…We consider a simple diploid population-genetic model with potentially high variability of offspring numbers among individuals. Specifically, against a…”
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Latent mutations in the ancestries of alleles under selection by Fan, Wai-Tong (Louis), Wakeley, John

“…We consider a single genetic locus with two alleles A1 and A2 in a large haploid population. The locus is subject to selection and two-way, or recurrent,…”
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Patch formation driven by stochastic effects of interaction between viruses and defective interfering particles by Liang, Qiantong, Yang, Johnny, Fan, Wai-Tong Louis, Lo, Wing-Cheong

“…Defective interfering particles (DIPs) are virus-like particles that occur naturally during virus infections. These particles are defective, lacking essential…”
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Modelling the impact of travel restrictions on COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong in early 2020 by Kwok, Wang-Chun, Wong, Chun-Ka, Ma, Ting-Fung, Ho, Ka-Wai, Fan, Louis Wai-Tong, Chan, King-Pui Florence, Chan, Samuel Shung-Kay, Tam, Terence Chi-Chun, Ho, Pak-Leung

“…Background Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) led to pandemic that affected almost all countries in the world. Many countries have implemented border…”
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Wave Propagation for Reaction-Diffusion Equations on Infinite Random Trees by Fan, Wai-Tong Louis, Hu, Wenqing, Terlov, Grigory

“…The asymptotic wave speed for FKPP type reaction-diffusion equations on a class of infinite random metric trees are considered. We show that a travelling…”
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GENEALOGIES IN EXPANDING POPULATIONS by Durrett, Rick, Fan, Wai-Tong (Louis)

“…The goal of this paper is to prove rigorous results for the behavior of genealogies in a one-dimensional long range biased voter model introduced by…”
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Impossibility of Consistent Distance Estimation from Sequence Lengths Under the TKF91 Model by Fan, Wai-Tong Louis, Legried, Brandon, Roch, Sebastien

“…We consider the problem of distance estimation under the TKF91 model of sequence evolution by insertions, deletions and substitutions on a phylogeny. In an…”
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A psychometric evaluation of an item bank for an English reading comprehension tool using Rasch analysis by Yim, Louis Wai Keung, Lye, Che Yee, Koh, Poh Wee

“…This study reports the psychometric evaluation of an item bank for an Assessment for Learning (AfL) tool to assess primary school students’ reading…”
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Uniform in time interacting particle approximations for nonlinear equations of Patlak-Keller-Segel type by Budhiraja, Amarjit, Fan, Wai-Tong Louis

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Novel local anesthesia technique ‘NATURE ’ (Nerves And Transversalis-fascia Using RopivacainE) to improve outcomes during endo-laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair by Wai, Louis, Wijerathne, Sujith, Liew, Lydia, Venkatesan, Shree, Lee, James, Loh, Clement, Lomanto, Davide

“…Background: The use of local anaesthesia infiltration techniques may attenuate pain following endo-laparoscopic inguinal hernia surgery. We aim to reduce…”
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Open versus laparoscopic intraperitoneal on-lay mesh repair: A comparison of outcomes in small ventral hernia by Loh, Clement, Tan, Lydia, Wijerathne, Sujith, Lee, James, Wai, Louis, Parameswaran, Rajeev, Goh, Serene, Oo, Aung Myint, Lomanto, Davide

“…The ideal surgical treatment of small ventral hernias (defect less than 4 cm) is still debatable. In our study, we sought to compare the outcomes of open…”
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Stochasticity, Selection, and the Evolution of Cooperation in a Two-Level Moran Model of the Snowdrift Game by Smead, Rory, Pham, Adam, Fan, Wai-Tong Louis, McLoone, Brian, Loewe, Laurence

“…The Snowdrift Game, also known as the Hawk-Dove Game, is a social dilemma in which an individual can participate (cooperate) or not (defect) in producing a…”
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Constrained Langevin approximation for the Togashi-Kaneko model of autocatalytic reactions by Fan, Wai-Tong Louis, Yang, Yifan Johnny, Yuan, Chaojie

“…The Togashi Kaneko model (TK model) is a simple stochastic reaction network that displays discreteness-induced transitions between meta-stable patterns. Here…”
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Large Deviations for Brownian Particle Systems with Killing by Budhiraja, Amarjit, Fan, Wai-Tong (Louis), Wu, Ruoyu

“…Particle approximations for certain nonlinear and nonlocal reaction–diffusion equations are studied using a system of Brownian motions with killing. The system…”
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Correction to: Modelling the impact of travel restrictions on COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong in early 2020 by Kwok, Wang-Chun, Wong, Chun-Ka, Ma, Ting-Fung, Ho, Ka-Wai, Fan, Louis Wai-Tong, Chan, King-Pui Florence, Chan, Samuel Shung-Kay, Tam, Terence Chi-Chun, Ho, Pak-Leung

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Discrete approximations to local times for reflected diffusions by Fan, Wai-Tong Louis

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Modeling atmospheric data and identifying dynamics  Temporal data-driven modeling of air pollutants by Rubio-Herrero, Javier, Ortiz Marrero, Carlos, Fan, Wai-Tong (Louis)

“…Atmospheric modeling has recently experienced a surge with the advent of deep learning. Most of these models, however, predict concentrations of pollutants…”
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An impossibility result for phylogeny reconstruction from k-mer counts by Fan, Wai-Tong Louis, Legried, Brandon, Roch, Sebastien

“…We consider phylogeny estimation under a two-state model of sequence evolution by site substitution on a tree. In the asymptotic regime where the sequence…”
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Temporal dynamics and genomic programming of plasma cell fates by Manakkat Vijay, Godhev Kumar, Zhou, Ming, Thakkar, Kairavee, Rothrauff, Abigail, Chawla, Amanpreet Singh, Chen, Dianyu, Lau, Louis Chi-Wai, Gerges, Peter Habib, Chetal, Kashish, Chhibbar, Prabal, Fan, Jingyu, Das, Jishnu, Joglekar, Alok, Borghesi, Lisa, Salomonis, Nathan, Xu, Heping, Singh, Harinder

“…Affinity-matured plasma cells (PCs) of varying lifespans are generated through a germinal center (GC) response. The developmental dynamics and genomic programs…”
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