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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “BHLHA9”
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The source
Exhaustive identification of human class II basic helix–loop–helix proteins by virtual library screening
Andrew S McLellan, Kenneth Langlands, Terence Kealey
Gene Expression Patterns · published December 2002 · cited 7 times by other papers
Retracted Dec 1, 2002
Error by Journal/PublisherWithdrawn to Publish in Different Journal
Where Wikipedia cites it
- BHLHA928 views a month · open since Nov 5Zombie
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