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Mitochondrial diversity within modern human populations.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jan 2007
Carter Robert W
Abstract excerpt
With the recent increase in the available number of high-quality, full-length mitochondrial sequences, it is now possible to construct and analyze a comprehensive human mitochondrial consensus sequence. Using a data set of 827 carefully selected sequences, it is shown that modern humans contain extremely low levels of divergence from the mitochondrial consensus sequence, differing by a mere 21.6 nt sites on...
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