OncoTargets and Therapy (Jan 2024)
LEF1-AS1, a Long Non-Coding RNA, Promotes Malignancy in Glioblastoma [Retraction]
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Wang J, Liu X, Yan C, et al. Onco Targets Ther. 2017;10:4251–4260. We, the Editors and Publisher of OncoTargets and Therapy, have retracted the following article. Following publication of the article, concerns were raised about the duplication of images from Figure 5 with images from other unrelated articles. Specifically, Images for Figure 5E, Ki-67, have been duplicated with images for Figure 3E from Zhang X, Lian T, Fan W, et al. Long-Noncoding RNA CASC9 Promotes Progression of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer by Promoting the Expression of CDC6 Through Binding to HuR. Cancer Manag Res. 2020;12:9033–9043. https://doi.org/10.2147/CMAR.S268375. 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 The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.
