The Long Noncoding RNA LINC00908 Facilitates Hepatocellular Carcinoma Progression via Interaction with Sox-4 [Retraction]

Hu X, Li Q, Zhang J. Cancer Manag Res. 2019;11:8789–8797.

The Editor and Publisher of Cancer Management and Research wish to retract the published article. Following publication, concerns were raised that images shown in Figure 1E appeared to have been duplicated with those from a previous publication. In addition, images in Figure 2 also appeared to have been duplicated with other images from the same figure. Specifically,

• Figure 1E, panels LINC00908 NAT and HCC, appear to have been duplicated with images from Figure 7K, panels Stat3 Peri-tumour and aHCC, respectively, in Chen et al, 2016 (https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12598).
• Figure 2D, panel HepG2 ShCtrl, appears to have been duplicated with the image shown in Figure 2D, panel Huh7 control.
• Figure 2D, panel HepG2 LINC00908, appears to have been duplicated with the image shown in Figure 2D, panel Huh7 ShCtrl.
• An image in Figure 2F, panel HepG2 xenograft ShCtrl, appears to have been duplicated with an image shown in Figure 2F, panel HepG2 xenograft control, which has been flipped.

The authors did not respond to our queries and the Editor requested that the article be retracted.

Our decision-making was informed by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retraction.

The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.

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