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This conclusion has been criticized based on data quality issues, statistical considerations, and simulation results. Here, we use rigorous mathematical arguments to investigate the site frequency spectrum in the two-type model of clonal evolution. If the fitnesses of the two types are \u03bb\n                    <jats:sub>0<\/jats:sub>\n                    &lt; \u03bb\n                    <jats:sub>1<\/jats:sub>\n                    , then the site frequency spectrum is\n                    <jats:italic>c<\/jats:italic>\n                    \/\n                    <jats:italic>f<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sup>\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b1<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sup>\n                    where\n                    <jats:italic>\u03b1<\/jats:italic>\n                    = \u03bb\n                    <jats:sub>0<\/jats:sub>\n                    \/\u03bb\n                    <jats:sub>1<\/jats:sub>\n                    . This is due to the advantageous mutations that produce the founders of the type 1 population. Mutations within the growing type 0 and type 1 populations follow the 1\/\n                    <jats:italic>f<\/jats:italic>\n                    law. 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