Retraction Note: BMC Oral Health (2023) 23:469
10.1186/s12903-023-03181-x
The Editor has retracted this article after concerns were raised about the data reported. The two datasets used in this analysis, GSE10334 and GSE16134, were each generated from the same archive of healthy and diseased gingival tissues, and as such there is a significant sampling overlap between the two. Furthermore, both datasets contain multiple samples per patient. The analytical approach employed by the authors in this paper does not account for these limitations. The Editor no longer has confidence in the reliability of the article’s results and conclusions.
Zhengrui Li, Attila Gábor Szöllősi, Hafiz Muzzammel Rehman, Xufeng Huang, Qi Wang, Shujing Zhou, and Rao Fu disagree with this retraction. The remaining authors did not respond to correspondence from the Publisher regarding this retraction.
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Xufeng Huang, Ying Liu and Qi Wang contributed equally to this work.
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