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At the authors request, the Editor and Publisher of Pharmacogenomics and Personalised Medicine wish to retract the published article. The authors have advised that despite the research being approved and authorized by the Ethics Committee of the School of Nursing of Chongqing Medical University, it also needed to be approved and authorized by the Ethics Committee of Chongqing Medical University. However, the authors were not aware of this requirement and failed to acquire the appropriate authorization prior to commencement of the study and have requested to retract the article.
The authors wish to apologise for this error.
Our decision-making was informed by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retraction.
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