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The phenomenon of having mitochondria or chloroplasts in a cell that have a different genome. For example, some mitochondria in a cell might have a deleterious mutation while the others are healthy.

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Heteroplasmy Calculation

For calculating heteroplasmy in mtDNA I was using MitoSeek, the tool provides position wise heteroplasmy percentage. So, will it be wise to add up all sites to get a position-wise percentage in a ...
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