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How clonal are human mitochondria?
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Mar 1999
Eyre-Walker A, Smith N H, Smith J M
Abstract excerpt
Phylogenetic trees constructed using human mitochondrial sequences contain a large number of homoplasies. These are due either to repeated mutation or to recombination between mitochondrial lineages. We show that a tree constructed using synonymous variation in the protein coding sequences of 29 largely complete human mitochondrial molecules contains 22 homoplasies at 32 phylogenetically informative sites. This...
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