Authors
Philip Awadalla, Adam Eyre-Walker, John Maynard Smith
Publication date
1999/12/24
Journal
Science
Volume
286
Issue
5449
Pages
2524-2525
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description
The assumption that human mitochondrial DNA is inherited from one parent only and therefore does not recombine is questionable. Linkage disequilibrium in human and chimpanzee mitochondrial DNA declines as a function of the distance between sites. This pattern can be attributed to one mechanism only: recombination.
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P Awadalla, A Eyre-Walker, JM Smith - Science, 1999