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. 2025 Apr 2;11(9):e43282. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e43282

Retraction notice to "Heat shock factor 5 establishes the male germ-line meiotic sex chromosome inactivation through regulation of Smarca4" [Heliyon 9 (2023) e15194]

A Rasim Barutc a,b, Andrew J Frit c, Rachel P McCor a, Jeffrey A Nick a, Muhammad Asla a,c,⁎
PMCID: PMC12134641  PMID: 40535264

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on article withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal).

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor.

Post-publication, an investigation conducted on behalf of the journal by Elsevier's Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics team determined that the authors A Rasim Barutc, Andrew J. Frit, Rachel P. McCor, and Jeffrey A. Nick, are fictitious. The names and affiliations were added to the paper by the corresponding author. The Editor has determined that the authorship and the findings of the article cannot be relied upon, and has decided to retract the article.

Authors A.R.B. (first author) and M.A. (last author) have not responded to the retraction notice.


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