RETRACTED: Long noncoding RNA SNHG16 promotes human retinoblastoma progression via sponging miR-140-5p

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief and the authors. Panels from Figure 2C appear similar to panels from Figure 2C of the article that Xiaoxia Liu, Yiyang Li, Jihong Wen, Tingting Qi and Yanli Wang have published in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 125 (2020) 109882 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopha.2020.109882, Figure 2C of the article that Minghe Li, Jun Ning, Zhihong Li, Qianyi Fei, Cong Zhao, Yue Ge and Lei Wang have published in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 118 (2019) 109259 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopha.2019.109259 and Figures 3C, 7D and 8B of the article that Dongmei Han, Jianfeng Wang and Guanghui Cheng have published in Oncotarget 9 (2018) 2395-2409 https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.23416. Although this article was published earlier than most of the other articles, the Editor decided to retract this article given concerns about the reliability of the data.

Keywords: Apoptosis; Proliferation; Retinoblastoma; SNHG16; miR-140-5p.