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生命科学纵横 理学院生命科学与生物工程研究院 * Mitochondrial dna is an important tool for Human population genetics because of such features as its maternal inheritance and absence of recombination. Consequently a substantial number of mt DNA mutations have accumulated sequentially along radiating maternal lineages that have diverged as human populations colonized different geographical regions of the world. Another virtue of mtDna is that a high mutation rate compared to nuclear dna, allows the genealogy to be captured in a fair amount of details. The most variable region of the mtDNA is the 1122 bp non coding c