Retraction to: Oncogenesis https://doi.org/10.1038/oncsis.2016.28, published online 11 April 2016

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article because several images in this article appear to overlap with those of a previously published article [1] by different authors. In particular:

  • Figure 3a (panel β-actin) appears to overlap with Figure 2e (panel 0h vs GAPDH (36 kDa)) of [1].

  • Figure 3a (panel p21) appears to overlap with Figure 6b (panel APC (160 kDa)) of [1].

In addition, the authors have been unable to provide documents confirming that ethics approval was obtained for the study.

D-Q Dou agrees with this retraction. C Liu, L-H Dai, L-Q Ma and Y-X Sun have not responded to correspondence from the Publisher about this retraction.