Mol Med Rep 17: [Related article:] 8087-8090, 2018; DOI:
10.3892/mmr.2018.8928
After the publication of the above article, the
Editor of Molecular Medicine Reports received an accusation
that this paper contained material taken from the PhD thesis of Dr
Xiao Bai of the China Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union
Medical College, whose thesis entitled “Study on mutations of ECM1
in lipoid proteinosis” was published online in 2015. After having
enquired with the authors regarding this allegation, the first
author and the corresponding author, Dr Dong Gao, admitted that she
had infringed the rights of Dr Bai, and that it was not appropriate
that the following figures were published in the research article:
Figs. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7, which coincided with Figs. 3, 19, 27,
29, 31, and 32 in her PhD thesis, respectively. Furthermore, the
above article was submitted to Molecular Medicine Reports by
Dr Gao without the prior knowledge of all the other authors.
Therefore, Dr Gao has agreed with the recommendation
of the Editor of Molecular Medicine Reports that the above
article should be retracted from the publication on account of the
inappropriate use of the figures, and for submitting the article
without having received the approval of all the authors. All the
named authors on the paper agree to the retraction. Dr Gao regrets
her actions and the inconvenience that this retraction has caused,
and sincerely apologizes to Dr Bai, to the Editor, and to the
readership of the Journal.
