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This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Following the concerns raised about the background pattern of the Western Blots from Figures 3A and 3C, the corresponding author has contacted the journal to request the retraction of the article. Given the comments of Dr Elisabeth Bik regarding this article “This paper belongs to a set of over 400 papers (as per February 2020) that share very similar Western blots with tadpole-like shaped bands, the same background pattern, and striking similarities in title structures, paper layout, bar graph design, and - in a subset - flow cytometry panels”, the journal requested the authors to provide the raw data. However, the authors were not able to fulfil this request and therefore the Editor-in-Chief decided to retract the article.

RETRACTED: Knockdown of long non-coding RNA CCAT1 suppresses proliferation and EMT of human cervical cancer cell lines by down-regulating Runx2