officially retracts the paper entitled, “HBx Elevates Oncoprotein AEG-1 Expression to Promote Cell Migration by Downregulating miR-375 and miR-136 in Malignant Hepatocytes,” by Jing Zhao, Wenjie Wang, Yuxian Huang, Jing Wu, Mingquan Chen, Peng Cui, Wenhong Zhang, and Ying Zhang (DNA and Cell Biology; doi: 10.1089/dna.2014.2376).
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1. [No author(s) listed]. Correction to: HBx elevates oncoprotein AEG-1 expression to promote cell migration by downregulating miR-375 and miR-136 in malignant hepatocytes by Zhao et al. Epub 2021 Sep 27. doi: 10.1089/dna.2014.2376.correx
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3. STM Working Group on Image Alteration and Duplication Detection. STM Recommendations for handling image integrity issues. https://osf.io/kgyc6/ Last accessed Sept. 29, 2021.
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