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The authors are retracting this article [1] because the data have already been published in [2] making this a redundant publication. Ghazi Alsbeih, Najla Al-Harbi, Khaled Al-Hadyan, Mohamed Shoukri and Nasser Al-Rajhi agree with this retraction. Medhat El-Sebaie did not respond to our correspondence.
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Alsbeih G, El-Sebaie M, Al-Rajhi N, Al-Harbi N, Al-Hadyan K, Al-Qahtani S, Alsubael M, Al-Shabanah M, Moftah B. Among 45 variants in 11 genes, HDM2 promoter polymorphisms emerge as new candidate biomarker associated with radiation toxicity. 3Biotech. 2014;4:137–48 (First Online 26 April 2013)
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Alsbeih, G., El-Sebaie, M., Al-Harbi, N. et al. Retraction Note: SNPs in genes implicated in radiation response are associated with radiotoxicity and evoke roles as predictive and prognostic biomarkers. Radiat Oncol 13, 79 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13014-018-1027-9
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