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Retraction Note to: High expression level and nuclear localization of Sam68 are associated with progression and poor prognosis in colorectal cancer

The Original Article was published on 09 August 2013

Retraction note to: BMC Gastroenterol 2013, 13:126 https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/1471-230X-13-126

The Editor has retracted this article after a number of concerns were raised, including:

  • Overlapping panels in Figures 2 and 3

  • Inaccurate description of Figure 2 parts A-C in the figure legend

  • Lack of discussion of the difference between the behaviour of the cell line COLO205 compared with the other cell lines used

  • Lack of methodological information relating to the 9 paired colorectal cancer tissue samples

  • No description of normal cell lines used and inconsistencies in the descriptions of colorectal cell lines

The Editor no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions presented. Yan-Mei Cu agrees with this retraction. Wen-Ting Liao and Li-Bing Song disagree with this retraction. Jun-Ling Liu, Zheng-Gen Wang, Ling Shi, Ting-Ting Li, Xiao-Hui Zhao, Xiu-Ting Chen and Yan-Qing Ding have not responded to correspondence from the Editor about this retraction.

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Liao, WT., Liu, JL., Wang, ZG. et al. Retraction Note to: High expression level and nuclear localization of Sam68 are associated with progression and poor prognosis in colorectal cancer. BMC Gastroenterol 21, 371 (2021). https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s12876-021-01952-w

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