Original citation: J Clin Invest. 2018;128(7):2951–2965. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI98727
Citation for this retraction: J Clin Invest. 2026;136(1):e202472. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI202472
Indiana University, The Ohio State University, and the University of Maryland, College Park jointly notified the JCI of data falsification in Supplemental Figure 8A and Supplemental Figure 9E and misconduct findings against Xiongbin Lu and Yunhua Liu. In accordance with the investigation committee’s recommendation, the JCI is retracting this article.
An independent investigation by Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is ongoing.
Yunhua Liu, Hanchen Xu, Xinna Zhang, Xiaoming He, and Xiongbin Lu dissent from the Journal’s decision to retract. The remaining authors abstained from commenting or could not be reached.
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