Expression of Concern: “Characterization of a novel epigenetically-silenced, growth-suppressive gene, ADAMTS9, and its association with lymph node metastases in nasopharyngeal carcinoma” by Lung, H. L., Lo, P. H. Y., Xie, D., Apte, S. S., Cheung, A. K. L., Cheng, Y., Law, E. W. L., Chua, D., Zeng, Y.-X., Tsao, S. W., Stanbridge, E. J. and Lung, M. L.

An Expression of Concern is issued in relation to the above article, published online on 30 April 2008 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), and in Volume 123, pp. 401–408, by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Peter Lichter, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The Expression of Concern has been agreed to due to concerns about Fig. 2a. Despite being unable to retrieve the original data due to the time that has elapsed, the authors believe the gene expression results of those DNA samples to be reproducible.

Reference

Lung, H. L., Lo, P. H. Y., Xie, D., Apte, S. S., Cheung, A. K. L., Cheng, Y., Law, E. W. L., Chua, D., Zeng, Y.-X., Tsao, S. W., Stanbridge, E. J. and Lung, M. L. (2008), Characterization of a novel epigenetically-silenced, growth-suppressive gene, ADAMTS9, and its association with lymph node metastases in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Int. J. Cancer, 123:401–408. DOI:10.1002/ijc.23528

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