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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Mir-661 microRNA precursor family”
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miR-661 Expression in SNAI1-induced Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition Contributes to Breast Cancer Cell Invasion by Targeting Nectin-1 and StarD10 Messengers
Guillaume Vetter, Anne Saumet, Moes Michèle, Laurent Vallar et al.
Oncogene · published June 2010 · cited 111 times by other papers
Retracted Dec 14, 2015
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Where Wikipedia cites it
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