RETRACTION: Methylation-Dependent Transcriptional Repression of RUNX3 by KCNQ1OT1 Regulates Mouse Cardiac Microvascular Endothelial Cell Viability and Inflammatory Response Following Myocardial Infarction.

Y. Wang, X. Yang, A. Jiang, W. Wang, J. Li, and J. Wen, "Methylation-Dependent Transcriptional Repression of RUNX3 by KCNQ1OT1 Regulates Mouse Cardiac Microvascular Endothelial Cell Viability and Inflammatory Response Following Myocardial Infarction," FASEB Journal 33, no. 12 (2019): 13145-13160. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.201900310R. The above article, published online on 18 October 2019, in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Loren E. Wold, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, and Wiley Periodicals LLC. The authors contacted the journal and requested withdrawal of their article due to incorrect data. Further investigation of the article by the publisher found that Figure 3D in this article was duplicated from other articles by different author groups, in which each was used in a different scientific context. Additionally, concerns have been raised by a third party regarding the veracity of the data expressed in Figures 2F, 3I, 5H, and 6H. The retraction has been agreed to because the evidence of image duplication across different articles, each of which describes different experimental conditions, fundamentally compromises the editors' confidence in the conclusions presented. The authors did not respond to our notice regarding the retraction.