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P.F.C. and D.C.S. designed the study. Computer simulations were carried out by P.W. P.F.C. and D.C.S. wrote the first draft of the manuscript, which was critically appraised by all of the authors.
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Samuels, D., Wonnapinij, P., Cree, L. et al. Reassessing evidence for a postnatal mitochondrial genetic bottleneck. Nat Genet 42, 471–472 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0610-471
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