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Retraction Note: Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young African American boys: a reanalysis of CDC data

The Original Article was published on 27 August 2014

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The Editor and Publisher regretfully retract the article [1] as there were undeclared competing interests on the part of the author which compromised the peer review process. Furthermore, post-publication peer review raised concerns about the validity of the methods and statistical analysis, therefore the Editors no longer have confidence in the soundness of the findings. We apologise to all affected parties for the inconvenience caused.

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  1. Hooker B: Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young african american boys: a reanalysis of CDC data. Transl Neurodegener 2014, 3: 16. 10.1186/2047-9158-3-16

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The online version of the original article can be found at 10.1186/2047-9158-3-16

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Hooker, B.S. Retraction Note: Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young African American boys: a reanalysis of CDC data. Transl Neurodegener 3, 22 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-9158-3-22

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