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Comment
. 2019 Feb 5;116(6):1821-1822.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1820533116. Epub 2019 Jan 23.

No further evidence for paternal leakage of mitochondrial DNA in humans yet

Sabine Lutz-Bonengel  1   2 , Walther Parson  3   4
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No further evidence for paternal leakage of mitochondrial DNA in humans yet

Sabine Lutz-Bonengel et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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