Correction to: Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41580-023-00697-6, published online 2 February 2024

In the version of the article initially published, there were errors in Fig. 1b where the text now reading “Transversion C to G” and “Transition A to G” originally read “Transition C to G” and “Transversions A to G.” The figure has now been amended in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.