Retraction
The Editor-in-Chief and Publisher have retracted this article [1] because the scientific integrity of the content cannot be guaranteed. An investigation by the Publisher found it to be one of a group of articles we have identified as showing evidence suggestive of attempts to subvert the peer review and publication system to inappropriately obtain or allocate authorship. This article showed evidence authorship manipulation.
Footnotes
The online version of the original article can be found under doi:10.1186/s13000-015-0393-y.
Reference
- 1.Ghasemkhani N, Shadvar S, Masoudi Y, Talaei AJ, Yahaghi E, Goudarzi PK, Shakiba E. Down-regulated MicroRNA 148b expression as predictive biomarker and its prognostic significance associated with clinicopathological features in non-small-cell lung cancer patients. Diagn Pathol. 2015;10:164. doi: 10.1186/s13000-015-0393-y. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] [Retracted]