Retraction Note to: Oncogene https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1207247, published online 19 February 2004

The Editors in Chief have retracted this article following a review by Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital that identified discrepancies in figure 1. There was no underlying research data available to resolve these discrepancies or to validate the reported results. Hiromichi Ito, Michael J Zinner, and Stanley W Ashley agree to this retraction. Mark S Duxbury and Edward E Whang do not agree with this retraction.