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In this Letter, the ArrayExpress accession number provided for the gene expression data for Sdhb-deficient cells should have been ‘ E-MTAB-4349’, rather than the Affymetrix GeneChip platform accession ‘A-AFFY-130’; this has been corrected in the online versions of the paper.