Retraction to: Cell Death and Disease https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-017-0077-5, published online 14 December 2017
The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this article because of significant concerns regarding Figure 2C, Supplementary Figures 5 and 6 presented in this work, which question the integrity of the data. Therefore, the Editors-in-Chief, no longer have confidence in the integrity of the data in this article. Authors Wen-Fei Wei, Xiaojing Chen, Lina He, Xiangguang Wu and Wei Wang have not explicitly stated whether they agree to this retraction notice. The editors were not able to obtain a current email address for Mei Zhong, Yan-Hong Yu and Li Liang. Chen-Fei Zhou, Lan-Fang Wu, and Rui-Ming Yan have not responded to any correspondence from the editor/publisher about this retraction.
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Wei, WF., Zhou, CF., Wu, XG. et al. Retraction Note: MicroRNA-221-3p, a TWIST2 target, promotes cervical cancer metastasis by directly targeting THBS2. Cell Death Dis 13, 1016 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-022-05469-2
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