Retraction Note: circRNA_100290 plays a role in oral cancer by functioning as a sponge of the miR-29 family.

The Editors and Publisher have agreed to retract the above paper following a request from the authors.

Retraction Note to: Oncogene (2017) 36:4551–4561

10.1038/onc.2017.89 published online 3 April 2017

The authors have retracted this article because it contains serious errors in Figs. 5c and 7b, resulting from the data collection process. As such, the authors are no longer confident in the conclusions drawn within this article. All authors agree to this retraction.