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(Molecular Therapy: Nucleic Acids 21, 133–146; September 2020)
This article has been retracted at the request of the editor-in-chief. Concerns regarding image recycling were posted to a Pubpeer thread (https://pubpeer.com/publications/742DB2CEA1FED9A5D29E2B7DAD74D5). Similarities were found between images in this article and articles published by different authors in Oncotarget (Wang et al., 2016, Oncotarget 7, 51713–51719, https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.10563) and this same journal, Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids (Cao et al., 2019, Mol. Ther. Nucleic Acids 17, 455–464, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omtn.2019.04.030). Image analysis performed by the editorial office confirmed the findings of image reuse with Figures 4D, 4E, 4F, 6A, and 6C. This reuse of data without appropriate attribution represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The authors disagree with the retraction.