Genome Biology

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Polymorphisms suggest mitochondrial recombination

Gilean McVean

  • Correspondence: Gilean McVean

Genome Biology 2000, 1:reports014 doi:10.1186/gb-2000-1-1-reports014

Published: 17 March 2000

Abstract

The patterns of nucleotide polymorphism in human mitochondrial sequences rock the belief that mitochondria do not recombine.