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Duplication leads to retraction of 1997 paper on heart disease genes

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crit rev clin lab sciA top cardiology researcher, Robert Hegele, of the Robarts Research Institute at the University of Western Ontario, has retracted a 15-year-old review after editors were made aware that it was “very similar” to another of his reviews.

Here’s the December 2012 notice for the paper, which has been cited 23 times, according to Thomson Scientific’s Web of Knowledge: Read the rest of this entry »

Written by ivanoransky

January 18, 2013 at 8:56 am

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