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Nature 421, 773-774 (20 February 2003) | doi:10.1038/421773a

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Error reports threaten to unravel databases of mitochondrial DNA

Carina Dennis

More than half of all published studies of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences contain mistakes, according to a geneticist at the University of Cambridge.To the occasional chagrin of his peers, Peter Forster has repeatedly pointed out errors in published mtDNA sequences, the genetic material from cells' mitochondria, which are inherited from the mother.