OncoTargets and Therapy (Oct 2023)
LncRNA EWSAT1 Promotes Colorectal Cancer Progression Through Sponging miR-326 to Modulate FBXL20 Expression [Retraction]
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Liu J, Huang S, Liao X, et al. Onco Targets Ther. 2021;14:367–378. We, the Editors and Publisher of OncoTargets and Therapy, have retracted the following article. Concerns were raised about the integrity of the data in the article after it was found images from Figure 2D had been duplicated with those from other unrelated articles. Specifically, Images for Figure 2D, Lovo, have been duplicated with images for Figure 2C; Figure 3; Figure 4D and Figure 5a from Hou A, Toh LX, Gan KH, Lee KJR, Manser E, Tong L. Rho GTPases and Regulation of Cell Migration and Polarization in Human Corneal Epithelial Cells. PLoS ONE. 2013;8(10):e77107. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077107; Wang Y, Yin Y, Zhou H, Cao Y. miR‑639 is associated with advanced cancer stages and promotes proliferation and migration of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Oncology Letters. 2018;16:6903–6909. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2018.9512; Zhao D, Zhang H, Long J, Li M. LncRNA SNHG7 Functions as an Oncogene in Cervical Cancer by Sponging miR-485-5p to Modulate JUND Expression. Onco Targets Ther. 2020;13:1677–1689. https://doi.org/10.2147/OTT.S237802 and Jiang H, Li Y, Li J, et al. Long noncoding RNA LSINCT5 promotes endometrial carcinoma cell proliferation, cycle, and invasion by promoting the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway via HMGA2. Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology. 2019;11. https://doi.org/10.1177/1758835919874649, respectively. The authors did not respond to our queries and were unable to provide an explanation for the duplicated images or provide data for the study. As verifying the validity of published work is core to the integrity of the scholarly record, we are therefore retracting the article and the authors were notified of this. We have been informed in our decision-making by our editorial policies and COPE guidelines. The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.
