Retraction Notice to: LINC01234/MicroRNA-31-5p/MAGEA3 Axis Mediates the Proliferation and Chemoresistance of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells

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(Molecular Therapy: Nucleic Acids 19, 168–178; March 2020)

This article has been retracted at the request of the editors.

Concerns regarding data integrity, which were based on a PubPeer thread showing unusually structured flow cytometry plots and an acknowledgements statement that has appeared in multiple paper mill papers (https://pubpeer.com/publications/5BDD7EDBC667C3CAD70F57F88FC657), were raised by the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Some of the original data provided by the authors do not match the published article. The editor-in-chief has also been made aware that this article is included in a list of suspected paper mill papers (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r0MyIYpagBc58BRF9c3luWNlCX8VUvUuPyYYXzxWvgY) due to similarities between the western blots in this article and other suspected paper mill papers. Given these issues, the editors have lost faith in the findings presented in the article. The authors disagree with the retraction.