The Editor-in-Chief of DNA and Cell Biology officially retracts the article entitled, “The E2F1 Oncogene Transcriptionally Regulates NELL2 in Cancer Cells” by Dong Hee Kim, Yun-Gil Roh, Hyun Hee Lee, Sang-Yeop Lee, Seung Il Kim, Byung Ju Lee, and Sun-Hee Leem (DNA Cell Biol. 2013;32(9):517–523; doi: 10.1089/dna.2013.1974) after discovering and investigating a report of duplicated images (in Figure 5) related to the paper on the PubPeer platform.1
The publisher of the journal contacted all authors listed on the paper to inquire about the problems identified on PubPeer. The lead author, Dr. Dong Hee Kim, responded by stating, “There seems to be a problem in the processing of working on the figures,” and supplied a new figure to replace the duplicated image. After reviewing the newly supplied figure and the author's answer, the Editor of the journal found the author's response to be unacceptable and called for a full retraction of the published paper.
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Reference
- 1. Actinopolyspora biskrensis. PubPeer. https://pubpeer.com/publications/158171953BA980DF1E4D03A82036F5?utm_source=Chrome&utm_medium=BrowserExtension&utm_campaign=Chrome#