Retraction Note to: Mammalian Genome (2021) 32:530–536 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00335-021-09920-1


The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article. After publication, concerns were raised regarding highly similar areas between the pcDNA3.1 and TLR8-AS1+ miR-34a group images of the SNU-398 cells in Fig. 4b. Additionally, the Ethics approval statement in the article is missing the approval number.

The Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the presented data.

None of the authors have responded to any correspondence from the editor or publisher about this retraction.