Retraction of: HBx Elevates Oncoprotein AEG-1 Expression to Promote Cell Migration by Downregulating miR-375 and miR-136 in Malignant Hepatocytes (10.1089/dna.2014.2376)

DNA and Cell Biology officially retracts the paper entitled, “HBx Elevates Oncoprotein AEG-1 Expression to Promote Cell Migration by Downregulating miR-375 and miR-136 in Malignant Hepatocytes,” by Jing Zhao, Wenjie Wang, Yuxian Huang, Jing Wu, Mingquan Chen, Peng Cui, Wenhong Zhang, and Ying Zhang (DNA and Cell Biology; doi: 10.1089/dna.2014.2376).

After the journal has published a post-publication correction to the article, ¹ additional considerations were made after revisiting the recently released guidelines by STM: Advancing Trusted Research. ² These recommendations indicate that replicative experiments should not be permitted if they were not generated at the time of the original experimentation. ^{3[section A2(4)]}

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