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. 2023 Sep 13;22:153. doi: 10.1186/s12943-023-01855-2

Retraction Note: HOXA7 plays a critical role in metastasis of liver cancer associated with activation of Snail

Bo Tang 1,2, Guangying Qi 3, Xiaoyu Sun 4, Fang Tang 3, Shengguang Yuan 1,2, Zhenran Wang 1,2, Xingsi Liang 1,2, Bo Li 1,2, Shuiping Yu 1,2, Jie Liu 1,2, Qi Huang 1,2, Yangchao Wei 1,2, Run Zhai 1,2, Biao Lei 1,2, Xinjin Guo 5,, Songqing He 1,2,
PMCID: PMC10498555  PMID: 37705027

Retraction Note: Mol Cancer 15 , 57 (2016)

10.1186/s12943-016-0540-4

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article at the authors’ request. After publication, concerns were raised regarding multiple cases of H&E staining and western blot image overlap with other articles that were submitted and published within a close time frame [18].

The authors have stated that the data were mislabelled and the images were misused. The authors and the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer have confidence in the presented data.

Bo Tang has stated on behalf of all co-authors that they agree to this retraction.

Footnotes

The online version of the original article can be found at 10.1186/s12943-016-0540-4.

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Xinjin Guo, Email: guo.xinjin@139.com.

Songqing He, Email: glhsq1001@sina.com.

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