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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “CEACAM6”

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The source

CEACAM6 gene silencing impairs anoikis resistance and in vivo metastatic ability of pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells

Mark S Duxbury, Hiromichi Ito, Michael J Zimmer, Stanley W Ashley et al.
Oncogene · published January 2004 · cited 150 times by other papers

Retracted Feb 10, 2023

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Where Wikipedia cites it

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