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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Front. Cell Dev. Biol.</journal-id>
<journal-title>Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology</journal-title>
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<article-title>Retraction: Roles of Epigenetic Modifications in the Differentiation and Function of Pancreatic &#x3b2;-Cells</article-title>
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<alt-title alt-title-type="right-running-head">Retraction: The Epigenetic Regulation in Pancreatic &#x3b2; Cell</alt-title>
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<bold>Approved by:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/269384/overview">Amanda Gay Fisher</ext-link>, Medical Research Council, United&#x20;Kingdom</p>
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<corresp id="c001">&#x2a;Correspondence: Frontiers Editorial Office, <email>editorial.office@frontiersin.org</email>
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<p>This article was submitted to Epigenomics and Epigenetics, a section of the journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology</p>
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<day>18</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2022</year>
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<year>2022</year>
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<day>28</day>
<month>02</month>
<year>2022</year>
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<day>28</day>
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<year>2022</year>
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<p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these&#x20;terms.</p>
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<related-article id="RA1" related-article-type="retracted-article" journal-id="Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)" journal-id-type="nlm-ta" xlink:href="10.3389/fcell.2020.00748" ext-link-type="doi">A Retraction of the Systematic Review Article <article-title>Roles of Epigenetic Modifications in the Differentiation and Function of Pancreatic &#x3b2;-Cells</article-title> by Xu, F., Liu, J., Na, L., and Chen L. (2020). Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 8:748. doi: <object-id>10.3389/fcell.2020.00748</object-id>
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<p>The journal retracts the 28 August 2020 article cited&#x20;above.</p>
<p>Following concerns regarding the originality of the article, an investigation was conducted in accordance with Frontiers&#x2019; policies. The investigation determined an unacceptably high level of similarity with an article published by <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">Dai et al. (2020)</xref>. This retraction was approved by the Field Chief Editor and the Specialty Chief Editor of <italic>Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology</italic>.</p>
<p>The authors concur with the retraction and sincerely regret any inconvenience this may have caused to the reviewers, editors, and readers of <italic>Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology</italic>.</p>
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