RETRACTION NOTICE: Research progress in the estimation of postmortem interval (PMI) using non-coding RNA (ncRNA) markers

At the request of the Editor, the following article has been retracted.

Lv Y-H, Wang Z-Q, Lei Q, Zhao J-H and Yang Z-F. Research progress in the estimation of postmortem interval (PMI) using non-coding RNA (ncRNA) markers. Medicine Science and the Law. E-pub ahead of print 6 December 2021. DOI: 10.1177/00258024211064404.

The Editor noticed that the same author group had previously published a similar review in the Chinese Language. ¹ The journal team undertook a detailed assessment of the overlap between the two articles and determined that much of the Introduction and Discussion section in the SAGE article appears to be translated from Lü et al. ¹ The authors explained that the articles were written for different audiences.

Due to the inappropriate duplication of text in publications without attribution, the Editor, after advice from SAGE, retracts this article.

The authors, Lv Y-H, Wang Z-Q, Lei Q, Zhao J-H and Yang Z-F, agreed with the retraction and apologize for any confusion.