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Yes it was done on troglodytes.
I think if you look at the (well done) thread Sylas had on {neander\chimp\human} DNA that this is addressed
http://EvC Forum: Comparisons of Neandertal mtDNA with modern humans and modern chimpanzees -->EvC Forum: Comparisons of Neandertal mtDNA with modern humans and modern chimpanzees
It appears that human\bonobos are more different than human\chimp
I don't see your conclusion in that thread. I'd be quite surprised if there were a substantial difference between human/bonobo and human/chimp genetic distances, since chimps and bonobos have been evolving for the same length of time since their split. There could be small effects due to different mutation rates, different generation times and even different levels of selective constraint, but they would probably be very hard to detect.
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