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We thank M.-A. Martí-Renom for allowing J.A.R. to repeat the equivalent of his PhD thesis work in two frantic months during his postdoc. This work was supported by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain (with project grants BFU2015-68649-P, BFU2016-77961-P and PGC2018-101927-B-I00, MINECO/AEI/FEDER, UE), the Spanish National Institute of Bioinformatics (PT17/0009/0020), Direcció General de Recerca, Generalitat de Catalunya (2017SGR702, 2017SGR880) and the “Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu”, funded by the MINECO (ref: MDM-2014-0370).
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Rodríguez, J.A., Farré, X., Muntané, G. et al. Reply to: Retesting the influences of mutation accumulation and antagonistic pleiotropy on human senescence and disease. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 994–995 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0926-y
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