Retraction Note to: Tumor Biol (2016) 37:5765–5768

DOI 10.1007/s13277-015-3777-4

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief, the International Society of Oncology and BioMarkers (ISOBM) and the Publisher per the Committee on Publication Ethics guidelines. The article shows evidence of irregularities in authorship during the submission process, there is strong reason to believe that the peer review process was compromised and there are similarities with the following articles which were all submitted within a close timeframe:

Naeemeh Ghasemkhani, Sahar Shadvar, Yasamin Masoudi, Amir Jouya Talaei, Emad Yahaghi, Peyman Karimi Goudarzi, Ebrahim Shakiba, Down-regulated MicroRNA 148b expression as predictive biomarker and its prognostic significance associated with clinicopathological features in non-small-cell lung cancer patients. Diagnostic Pathology 2015, 10:164 DOI: 10.1186/s13000-015-0393-y

Date received: 18 June 2015

Yasan Sadeghian, Zahra Kamyabi-Moghaddam, Seyed Mohamad Hossein Tabatabaei Nodushan, Samaneh Khoshbakht, Behnam Pedram, Emad Yahaghi, Aram Mokarizadeh, Mahdi Mohebbi, Profiles of tissue microRNAs; miR-148b and miR-25 serve as potential prognostic biomarkers for hepatocellular carcinoma. Tumor Biol. First Online: 25 July 2015 DOI: 10.1007/s13277-015-3799-y

Date received: 1 July 2015

The retracted article was received: 16 June 2015

As such the validity of the content of this article cannot be verified.