Retraction Notice to: circPHIP promotes oral squamous cell carcinoma progression by sponging miR-142-5p and regulating PHIP and ACTN4 expression

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(Mol Ther Nucleic Acids. 23, 185–199; March 5, 2021)

Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids is retracting this article. After investigating concerns of image duplication raised by a reader, evidence for image duplication in identical or altered fashion in Figures 2B, 2F, 4E, 5D, and 7E was identified. This re-use (and in part misrepresentation) of data without appropriate attribution represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system.

The authors have agreed to retract the paper, although they maintain that these issues did not affect the major conclusions. They apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.