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Retraction

Retraction: The MicroRNA-217 Functions as a Potential Tumor Suppressor in Gastric Cancer by Targeting GPC5

  • The PLOS ONE Editors

The PLOS ONE Editors retract this article [1] because it was identified as one of a series of submissions for which we have concerns about peer review, authorship, and similarities across articles. Image similarities were noted between Fig 3E and Fig 5C in [1], and Fig 5D in [2]. These concerns call into question the validity and provenance of the reported results. We regret that the issues were not addressed prior to the article’s publication.

All authors either did not respond directly or could not be reached.

References

  1. 1. Wang H, Dong X, Gu X, Qin R, Jia H, Gao J (2015) The MicroRNA-217 Functions as a Potential Tumor Suppressor in Gastric Cancer by Targeting GPC5. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0125474. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125474 pmid:26098560
  2. 2. Li Z., Yu X., Wang Y., Shen J., Wu W. Ka Kei, Liang J., Feng F. By downregulating TIAM1 expression, microRNA-329 suppresses gastric cancer invasion and growth. Oncotarget. 2015; 6: 17559–17569. Retrieved from https://www.oncotarget.com/article/2755/text/ pmid:25654811

Citation: The PLOS ONE Editors (2023) Retraction: The MicroRNA-217 Functions as a Potential Tumor Suppressor in Gastric Cancer by Targeting GPC5. PLoS ONE 18(3): e0283151. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283151

Published: March 29, 2023

Copyright: © 2023 The PLOS ONE Editors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.