title: Mitochondrial DNA recombination-no need to panic.
abstract: Recombination has recently been invoked as an explanation for the large amount of homoplasy observed in a collection of complete or nearly complete human mitochondrial sequences. Here we show that some of the data on which this conclusion was based are likely to be unreliable and that if these data are excluded, the results are no longer significant.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, UK. vincent.macaulay@cellsci.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Macaulay
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sykes
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D011995:Recombination, Genetic
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial