Retraction: SETDB1 Is Involved in Postembryonic DNA Methylation and Gene Silencing in Drosophila

The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) within the United States Department of Health and Human Services has completed an investigation involving this article [1] and concluded there was evidence of misconduct involving Figure 1B. As detailed in the ORI report [2], the image was used in grant application figures and two other publications [3,4], in which the same data was reported as representing different experiments. In addition, concerns have been raised about other figures in the PLOS ONE article:

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