Earlier this week, a team of researchers announced that they’d made a discovery about how we inherit mitochondrial DNA from our parents that could change what we know about not only disease inheritance, but human history as a whole.
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http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1810946115
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