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C.K. isolated and genotyped Polg mouse embryos and P.T. and A.K.N. isolated and genotyped Samhd1 mouse embryos. S.S. performed the dNTP-pool measurements. S.S., N.-G.L. and A.C. analysed the data. A.C. wrote the manuscript.
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Sharma, S., Koolmeister, C., Tran, P. et al. Proofreading deficiency in mitochondrial DNA polymerase does not affect total dNTP pools in mouse embryos. Nat Metab 2, 673–675 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-020-0264-z
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