Abstract
The Editor-in-Chief of DNA and Cell Biology officially retracts the article entitled, “H19 Functions as a ceRNA in Promoting Metastasis Through Decreasing miR-200s Activity in Osteosarcoma,” by Min Li, Hanwen Chen, Yuejiang Zhao, Shuming Gao, and Cai Cheng (DNA Cell Biol 35(5):235–240; doi: 10.1089/dna.2015.3171) after receiving alerts from the PubPeer platform1 and comments on Twitter2 regarding multiple image duplications between Figure 1A-E and Figure 4A-B, and also with a separately published manuscript from a different author group (Figure 4B).3
The journal publisher independently confirmed the suspected duplications.
The corresponding author of the paper, Dr. Min Li, along with all co-authors, were contacted for an explanation but no response was received.
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1. PubPeer. Actinopolyspora biskrensis.
2. Twitter. @Thatsregrettab1.
3. Zhao D, Jiang Z, Wang Z, Gao J. Retinoid interferon-induced mortality19 (GRIM19) inhibits proliferation and invasion in rheumatoid arthritis fibroblast-like synoviocytes. Biomed Pharmacother 2018;98:719-725; doi: 10.1016/j.biopha.2017.12.114
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