The article

“MicroRNA-29a Inhibits Growth, Migration and Invasion of Melanoma A375 Cells in Vitro by Directly Targeting BMI1”
[Cell Physiol Biochem 2018;50:385-397. DOI: 10.1159/000494015]
by Ying Xiong, Liqian Liu, Ying Qiu and Lili Liu

has been retracted by the current and former Publishers and the Editor.

After the publication of this article, concerns were raised about the integrity of some of the data presented. The authors responded to our query and provided the raw data. This material was reviewed and found to reflect the data presented in the article.
Recently, the results of an investigation by the authors instiution were published, details can be found here:
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The result of the investigation indicates that evidence of misconduct was identified within the article. The authors' institution did not respond to our request to provide more detail about the results of the investigation and the authors did not respond to our request to comment on the results of the investigation within the specified timeframe.

The authors did not respond to our correspondence about the retraction of this article.