The following article has been retracted from publication in the Taylor & Francis journal Mitochondrial DNA Part A:
Alok Kumar Singh, Poorti Pandey, Mallika Tewari, Haushila Prasad Pandey & Hari Shankar Shukla ‘Human mitochondrial genome flaws and risk of cancer’ published in Mitochondrial DNA. 25(5): 329-334. First published online 12 June 2013.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/19401736.2013.796520
Since the above article was published online, we have been made aware of substantial concerning similarities between extracts of text in this article and the following earlier published works:
Claus Desler, Maiken Lise Marcker, Keshav K. Singh, and Lene Juel Rasmussen ‘The Importance of Mitochondrial DNA in Aging and Cancer’ published in Journal of Aging Research. 2011: 407536.
Hui Li and Ze-Hui Hong ‘Mitochondrial DNA mutations in human tumor cells’, published in Oncology Letters. Volume 4(5): 868–872. 2012.
Robert W. Taylor and Doug M. Turnbull (2005) ‘Mitochondrial DNA Mutations in Human Disease’ published in Nature Reviews Genetics. Volume 6(5): 389–402. 2005.
Marco Crimi and Roberta Rigolio ‘The mitochondrial genome, a growing interest inside an organelle’ published in International Journal of Nanomedicine. Volume 3(1): 51–57. 2008.
Jennifer S Carew and Peng Huang ‘Mitochondrial defects in cancer’ published in Molecular Caner. Volume 1: 9. 2002.
Fogg VC, Lanning NJ, Mackeigan JP ‘Mitochondria in cancer: at the crossroads of life and death’ published in Chinese Journal of Cancer. Volume 30(8) 526-39. 2011.
Singh K.K., Kulawiec M. ‘Mitochondrial DNA Polymorphism and Risk of Cancer’ published in Cancer Epidemiology. Volmume 471, 291–303. 2009.
This represents a breach of ethics and of warranties made by the authors with respect to originality and provenance.
The Editor of Mitochondrial DNA Part A, and Taylor & Francis, the publishers, censure this conduct, and as a result have decided to retract the article from publication.
The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.
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