Liu Jinlin, Wang Huan, Yu Qinhua, Zheng Sujie, Jiang Yangcheng, Liu Yiyan, Yuan Guorong, Qiu Liannv
Department of Clinical Laboratory, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Hangzhou 310004, China.
Department of Clinical Laboratory, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035, China.
Hum Immunol. 2016 Jan;77(1):84-89. doi: 10.1016/j.humimm.2015.10.015. Epub 2015 Oct 23.
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article due to serious problems with copied and re-labeled images in several figures. Specifically, the problematic items are the HC and Stage I samples in figure 1D (IL-10/CD19) and figure 2B (CD127/CD25), in which the flow dot plots outside of the boxes are identical. This strongly suggests that the data was manipulated. The authors were unable to provide the raw data files to prove otherwise. This makes the overall conclusions of the paper unreliable and violates our ethical publishing policies. The corresponding author, Liannv Qiu takes full responsibility and apologizes to all co-authors in this article, and the editors and readership of Human Immunology for any negative impact this may have on the journal.