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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Upregulated miR-27a-3p Indicates a Poor Prognosis in Pancreatic Carcinoma Patients and Promotes the Angiogenesis and Migration by Epigenetic Silencing of GATA6 and Activating VEGFA/VEGFR2 Signaling Pathway

Authors Rao X, Wan L, Jie Z, Zhu X, Yin J, Cao H

Received 24 June 2019

Accepted for publication 16 November 2019

Published 19 December 2019 Volume 2019:12 Pages 11241—11254

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/OTT.S220621

Checked for plagiarism Yes

Review by Single anonymous peer review

Peer reviewer comments 2

Editor who approved publication: Professor Gaetano Romano



This paper has been retracted.

Rao X, Wan L, Jie Z, Zhu X, Yin J, Cao H. Onco Targets Ther. 2019;12:11241–11254.

We, the Editors and Publisher of OncoTargets and Therapy, have retracted the published article.

Since publication, concerns have been raised about the integrity of the data in the article. When approached for an explanation, the authors did not respond to our queries, nor did they provide original data for their study. As verifying the validity of the published work is core to the integrity of the scholarly record, we are therefore retracting the article and the authors were notified of this.

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