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A reanalysis of the indirect evidence for recombination in human mitochondrial DNA.
Heredity - 1 Apr 2004
Piganeau G, Eyre-Walker A
Abstract excerpt
In an attempt to resolve the controversy about whether recombination occurs in human mtDNA, we have analysed three recently published data sets of complete mtDNA sequences along with 10 RFLP data sets. We have analysed the relationship between linkage disequilibrium (LD) and distance between sites under a variety of conditions using two measures of LD, r2 and /D'/. We find that there is a negative correlation...
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