The current and former Publishers and Editor are issuing an Expression of Concern on the article titled
“Long Non-Coding RNA XLOC_008466 Functions as an Oncogene in Human Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer by Targeting miR-874’ [Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry 2017;42:126– 136;DOI: 10.1159/000477121] by Rui Yang, Ping Li, Guojun Zhanga Chunya Lu, Huaqi Wang and Guoqiang Zhao.
After publication of this article, concerns were raised about the integrity of some of the data presented in Figure 2. The authors stated that an investigation has been conducted by the corresponding author’s institution and the journal’s investigation is ongoing. Readers should thus interpret the data presented in the article with caution and appropriate editorial action will be taken once the investigation is concluded.