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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations are an important cause of neurological disease. The identification of causative mtDNA mutations may be particularly troublesome in blood where there are often low levels of mutant mtDNA. This is evident from a recent study in which heteroplasmic mtDNA mutations in cytochromecoxidase genes were incorrectly thought to be linked to Alzheimer's disease. We wished to...