Mol Med Rep 17: [Related article:] 6379–6386, 2018; DOI:
10.3892/mmr.2018.8726
Subsequently to the publication of the above paper,
an interested reader drew to the Editor's attention that the
authors may have misstated the datasets used in their study at the
start of the Results section. Specifically, at the beginning of the
Materials and methods section (in the “Affymetrix microarray
data” subsection), it is stated that “Series matrix files of
the microarray data: GSE21933, GSE33532, GSE44077 and GSE74706 were
downloaded from the public GEO database”, whereas in the first
sentence of the Results section, in the “Identification of
DEGs” subsection, it is stated “In order to identify the DEGs,
we downloaded 4 public RNA-seq datasets of NSCLC from the GEO
database for our analysis: GSE21933, GSE33532, GSE44077 and
GSE74706.”
After having considered this comment by the external
reader, the Editor of Molecular Medicine Reports has judged
that the four datasets in question should have also been described
as microarray datasets in the Results section of this paper.
Although we have been unable to reach the authors in this regard,
we are continuing to ask them to confirm that the text in the
Results section was indeed written incorrectly. We apologize to the
readership of the Journal for any confusion in this matter.
