Retraction to: Cancer Gene Therapy https://doi.org/10.1038/cgt.2015.50, published online 23 October 2015

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article because the validity of its content cannot be verified. After publication, the corresponding author Guojun Zhang contacted the journal stating that the paper was submitted without their permission or knowledge and the original data has not been verified by the corresponding author. Further investigation by the Publisher found concerns regarding authorship, peer review and text overlap with articles published earlier [1, 2]. The authors did not respond to the journal’s request to share original data, ethics approval or any other concerns.

Author Guojun Zhang agrees with this retraction. Author X. Zhu disagree with this retraction. Author Z. Lin has not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction. The Publisher has not been able to obtain a current email address for author Haiyue Zhao.