Retraction: Association of MDR1 Gene SNPs and Haplotypes with the Tacrolimus Dose Requirements in Han Chinese Liver Transplant Recipients.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0220759

Abstract

Highlights

Concerns have been raised that the transplants performed in the local context at the time of procedures reported in this article [1] may have involved organs/tissues procured from prisoners [2]
International ethical standards call for transparency in organ donor and transplantation programs and clear informed consent procedures including considerations to ensure that donors are not subject to coercion [3,4,5]
The authors stated that no vulnerable populations were involved in their research and they provided a letter from the Ethics Committee of Human Organ Transplantation at First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University which confirmed that the organ donations involved in the article took place 2001–2012, and that these organ donations received ethics approval and conformed to local regulations

Summary

Introduction

Concerns have been raised that the transplants performed in the local context at the time of procedures reported in this article [1] may have involved organs/tissues procured from prisoners [2]. Details as to the donor sources and methods of obtaining informed consent from donors were not reported in [1], and when following up on these concerns the authors did not clarify these issues or the cause(s) of donor death in response to journal inquiries.

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