Retraction Note: Mol Cancer 15, 57 (2016)
The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article at the authors’ request. After publication, concerns were raised regarding multiple cases of H&E staining and western blot image overlap with other articles that were submitted and published within a close time frame [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8].
The authors have stated that the data were mislabelled and the images were misused. The authors and the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer have confidence in the presented data.
Bo Tang has stated on behalf of all co-authors that they agree to this retraction.
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Tang, B., Qi, G., Sun, X. et al. Retraction Note: HOXA7 plays a critical role in metastasis of liver cancer associated with activation of Snail. Mol Cancer 22, 153 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12943-023-01855-2
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