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The Authors and Editors wish to jointly publish an Expression of Concern regarding the above article.
The Editors wish to alert the readers that questions have been raised about the validity of some of the figures presented in this article.
In Figure 2B, some lanes have been duplicated as described below:
The sample of HeLa without NHS was lost, the authors duplicated the lane of HeLa with 0.05μl NHS.
The sample of M059-J with 0.2μl of NHS was lost, the authors duplicated the lane of M059-J with 0.025μl of NHS.
Lane 7 of Figure 3B (M059-J, probe only) has been copied from a different experiment.
While these irregularities may not fundamentally affect the results and conclusions of the article, the Editors nonetheless note that such manipulations of data and corresponding figures is unacceptable. The authors concur and deeply regret the transgression.
Keith Fox, Senior Executive Editor, Nucleic Acids Research
Barry Stoddard, Senior Executive Editor, Nucleic Acids Research
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