Questioning evidence for recombination in human mitochondrial DNA.

The possibility of recombination in human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), raised recently by Awadalla et al . ([1][1]), holds crucial implications for many evolutionary studies ([2][2]). Here, we reexamine the data analyzed in ([1][1]), show that some of those data are likely unreliable, and suggest that

• Publication year

  2000

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  Science

• Publication date

  2000-06-16

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.288.5473.1931APMID 17835098
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