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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “MIR1271”
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The source
miR-1271 promotes non-small-cell lung cancer cell proliferation and invasion via targeting HOXA5
Yongfang Wang, Lianhong Xu, Lixin Jiang
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (BBRC) · published February 2015 · cited 35 times by other papers
Retracted Jan 1, 2019
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Where Wikipedia cites it
- MIR12715 views a month · open since Nov 5Zombie
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