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I tried a query using the keyword “mtDNA” and found 60 records, but many of them show SNP localization on chromosomes rather than in the mitochondrial genome. Why?

April 26, 2017chromosomes keyword localization mitochondrial query records SNP

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I tried a query using the keyword “mtDNA” and found 60 records, but many of them show SNP localization on chromosomes rather than in the mitochondrial genome. Why?

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The SNPs that you retrieved using the mtDNA query are not true mitochondrial moltypes; they are incidentally related in some way with the keyword mtDNA. We only have mitochodrial moltype data for one organism, Cooperia oncophora.