We, the Publisher and Editor of Cell Cycle are issuing an Expression of Concern for the following article:
Peng Wang, Xinfa Liu, Gaohua Han, Shengbin Dai, Qingtao Ni, Shujun Xiao and Junxing Huang. Downregulated lncRNA UCA1 acts as ceRNA to adsorb microRNA-498 to repress proliferation, invasion and epithelial mesenchymal transition of esophageal cancer cells by decreasing ZEB2 expression. Cell Cycle. 2019;18(18):2359-2376. doi: 10.1080/15384101.2019.1648959
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