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Li Y, Zeng C, Tu M, et al. Onco Targets Ther. 2016;9:3101–3111.
The Editor and Publisher of OncoTargets and Therapy wish to retract the published article. Concerns were raised regarding the alleged duplication of images in Figures 3B and 7B which appear to have been duplicated with similar images from other unrelated articles. The authors responded to our queries but were unable to provide an explanation for the alleged image duplication and were unable to verify their original data.
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