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Dang Y, Ouyang X, Ren W, Wang L, Huang Q. Cancer Manag Res. 2021;13:5163–5175.

Concerns were raised in February 2025 by a third party regarding data in the published article. The authors also contacted the journal in February 2025 regarding the error in Figure 4 on page 5172.

The authors advised due to a copy and paste error at the time of figure assembly there was an inadvertent duplication of images between the BGC-823 cells and the SGC-7901 cells in Figure 4A. The correct Figure 4 is as follows.

Figure 4 Location of AFAP1-AS1 expression in GC cells and the correlation between AFAP1-AS1 and AFAP1 expression. (A) RNA FISH for the location of AFAP1-AS1 in GC cells. (B) The schematic drawing of the genomics loci of AFAP1-AS1. (C and D) The results of RT-qPCR showed that silencing of AFAP1-AS1 expression significantly decreased the expression of AFAP1 in BGC-823 and SGC-7901 cells. Data are presented as the mean±standard deviation, n = 3. *p<0.05, **p<0.01.

Abbreviations: AFAP1-AS1, actin filament associated protein 1 antisense RNA1; FISH, fluorescence in situ hybridization; GC, gastric cancer; NC, scrambled siRNA; RT-qPCR, real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction.

The authors apologize for this error and advise it does not affect the results and conclusion of the article.

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