Article title: A regulatory circuit of circ-MTO1/miR-17/QKI-5 inhibits the proliferation of lung adenocarcinoma
Authors: Binbin Zhang, Maolin Chen, Nan Jiang, Kefeng Shi, Runlin Qian
Journal: Cancer Biology & Therapy
DOI: 10.1080/15384047.2019.1598762
The Publisher was contacted regarding concerns about the duplication of Figures 2C and 2H from articles that have been previously published in other articles with no connection to the above-mentioned manuscript.
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