http://dx.doi.org/10.5808/GI.2012.10.4.249Genomics Inform 2012;10(4):249-255The editorial committee of Genomics & Informatics has concluded that a substantial portion of the above article [1] was 'copied and pasted' from earlier publications without appropriate attribution. Although the plagiarized texts are detected only in the Introduction section [2], such a misconduct is unacceptable in a scientific writing. The authors have acknowledged plagiarism in the above article and requested retraction.