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The authors wish to thank Prof Paul Boehmer for the critical reading of the manuscript. The authors deeply apologize to the too many colleagues they were unable to cite due to the space restriction.

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  1. Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, CNRS-Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, UMR 5089, 205 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, 31077 cedex, France

    Giuseppe Villani & Nicolas Tanguy Le Gac

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Villani, G., Tanguy Le Gac, N. (2014). DNA Repair Polymerases. In: Bell, E. (eds) Molecular Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6436-5_61-1

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