27 citations · 38 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
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q-bio.PE2016★ 11 cited
Effects of population growth on the success of invading mutants
Peter Ashcroft, Cassandra E. R. Smith, Matthew Garrod +1
Understanding if and how mutants reach fixation in populations is an important question in evolutionary biology. We study the impact of population growth has on the success of muta…
q-bio.PE2014★ 27 cited
Stochastic tunneling and metastable states during the somatic evolution of cancer
Peter Ashcroft, Franziska Michor, Tobias Galla
Tumors initiate when a population of proliferating cells accumulates a certain number and type of genetic and/or epigenetic alterations. The population dynamics of such sequential…