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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Mir-340 microRNA precursor family”
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The source
MicroRNA-340-mediated degradation of microphthalmia-associated transcription factor mRNA is inhibited by the coding region determinant-binding protein
Srikanta Goswami, Rohinton S Tarapore, Jessica J TesLaa, Yavgenya Grinblat et al.
The Journal of Biological Chemistry · published July 2010 · cited 58 times by other papers
Retracted Apr 25, 2014
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Where Wikipedia cites it
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