Retraction of Diagnostic Performance of Serum Macrophage Inhibitory Cytokine 1 in Pancreatic Cancer: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression Analysis (DOI: 10.1089/dna.2013.2237)

All of the authors of two articles published in DNA and Cell Biology have requested the retraction of this meta-analysis article. The reason they state is “severe conflicts of author sequences.”

Chen, Y.-Z. et al. (2014). Diagnostic performance of serum macrophage inhibitory cytokine 1 in pancreatic cancer: a meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis, DNA Cell Biol 33(6):370–377. DOI: 10.1089/dna.2013.2237. Epub 2014 Mar 4.

On PubMed.gov, the abstract is accompanied by a comment from Guillaume Filion indicating that the paper bears striking similarity to other publications.

These authors have also recently retracted three papers, one from Molecular Biology Reports and two from Tumor Biology.

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