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(Molecular Therapy: Nucleic Acids 19, 61–71; March 2020)
This article has been retracted at the request of the editors.
Molecular Therapy – Nucleic Acids is retracting this article. Concerns regarding data integrity were raised by the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which were based on a PubPeer thread showing similarities in the ruler used to provide scale for tumor images in this article and an article by unrelated authors, inconsistencies in shadows and lighting in tumor images, and similarities between western blots in this article and articles by unrelated authors (https://pubpeer.com/publications/75BA121EA6F1F35831E8A54B42215E). The editors reached out to the authors to request the original data. Per journal policy, the editors, at their discretion, may request deposition of any or all original data files for examination by the reviewers and/or editors. As a result of the authors’ failure to provide these data—in violation of journal policy—and the allegations of fraud, the editors feel that findings of the manuscript cannot be relied upon. All authors have been informed.