Retraction of: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-91505-y, published online 25 February 2025
The Editors have retracted this Article.
After publication, the Editors identified multiple scientific errors in the Article, including:
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lack of alignment of their sequence with the actual sequence in the protein under study (GABRG2);
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incorrect secondary sequence prediction analysis;
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and further errors in downstream analyses.
The Authors agreed that their analyses were flawed and that the corrected analyses no longer support the claims of the Article.
The Editors therefore no longer have confidence in the conclusions of this Article.
Muhammad Naveed and Tariq Aziz agree with this retraction. Nimra Hanif, Muhammad Waseem, Metab Alharbi, Abdulrahman Alshammari, and Abdullah F. Alasmari have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction.
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Naveed, M., Hanif, N., Aziz, T. et al. Retraction Note: Insight into molecular and mutational scrutiny of epilepsy associated gene Gabrg2 leading to novel computer-aided drug designing. Sci Rep 16, 8374 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-43115-5
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