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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFC1001100), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31625015 and 31521003), the Shanghai Medical Center of Key Programs for Female Reproductive Diseases (2017ZZ01016), and the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (2017SHZDZX01).

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  1. Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, NHC Key Laboratory of Reproduction Regulation (Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research), State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering at School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200011, China

    Xi Yang, Feng Zhang & Yanhua Wu

  2. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Endocrine Related Diseases, Shanghai, 200011, China

    Feng Zhang & Yanhua Wu

  3. The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, The CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Diseases, School of Life Sciences, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China

    Qinghua Shi

  4. National Demonstration Center for Experimental Biology Education, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China

    Yanhua Wu

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Yang, X., Zhang, F., Shi, Q. et al. “Response to the letter to the editor “Concerns regarding the potentially causal role of FANCA heterozygous variants in human primary ovarian insufficiency””. Hum Genet 140, 695–697 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-020-02233-4

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