Retraction:

Sijie Cheng¹, Tieling Li², Cheng Wang², Keyu Wang³, Chengcai Lai³, Jin Yan¹, Hongxia Fan¹, Fang Sun¹, Zhaohai Wang¹, Peirui Zhang¹, Linxiang Yu¹, Zhixian Hong¹, Guanglin Lei¹, Baijun Sun¹, Yuan Gao¹, Zhaohui Xiao¹, Xu Ji¹, Ruilan Wang¹, Jianzhong Wu¹, Xiliang Wang², Shaogeng Zhang¹ and Penghui Yang^1,3

¹Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, 100039, China
²Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100853, China
³State Key Laboratory of Pathogens and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, China

Published: January 16, 2024

Copyright: © 2024 Cheng et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

This article has been retracted: Multiple images in Figure 3C, which illustrates that LincRNA P7 inhibited the proliferation of HCC cells SMMC7721 and Huh7 with colony-forming assay, were found to be fraudulent duplications of images from a previously published Oncotarget paper [1] Figure 2D, which represents results of colony formation in different HCC cells Huh-6, BEL-7402 and SMMC-7721 transfected with unrelated HULC siRNA. As a result, all authors have agreed to the retraction of this paper from Oncotarget.

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Original article: Oncotarget. 2018; 9:36057–36066. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.23282