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Retraction Note to: Coffee component hydroxyl hydroquinone (HHQ) as a putative ligand for PPAR gamma and implications in breast cancer

BMC Genomics volume 23, Article number: 127 (2022) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 16 October 2013

Retraction Note to: BMC Genomics 14, S6 (2013)

https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-S5-S6

The Editor is retracting this article because of significant overlap of text with [1] and [2]. Babita Shashni agrees with this retraction. Yukio Nagasaki and Meena K Sakharkar do not agree with this retraction. Karun Sharma, Kishore R Sakharkar and Sarinder K Dhillon have not responded to correspondence from the Editor about this retraction. The Editor was not able to obtain a current email address for Rumani Singh.

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  1. Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Babita Shashni, Karun Sharma & Meena K. Sakharkar

  2. AIST, Tsukuba, Japan

    Rumani Singh

  3. OmicsVista, Singapore, Singapore

    Kishore R. Sakharkar

  4. Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Sarinder K. Dhillon

  5. Department of Materials Sciences, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Yukio Nagasaki

  6. Master’s School of Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Yukio Nagasaki

  7. Satellite Laboratory, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Yukio Nagasaki

  8. Department of Biotechnology, University of Pune, Pune, India

    Meena K. Sakharkar

  9. Drug Discovery and Development Research Group, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

    Meena K. Sakharkar

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Shashni, B., Sharma, K., Singh, R. et al. Retraction Note to: Coffee component hydroxyl hydroquinone (HHQ) as a putative ligand for PPAR gamma and implications in breast cancer. BMC Genomics 23, 127 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-022-08371-5

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