Retraction Note: Detection of HPV16 viral load in L2 gene as a related predictor of cervical cancer among women in Dhi-Qar province by qRT-PCR(Molecular Biology Reports, (2022), 49, (11847–11853), 10.1007/s11033-022-07955-4)

The Editors-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process by the guest-editor. Further post publication review of this article concluded that there are significant concerns with the methodology, data and results of this article. The Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article. Author Abduladheem Turki Jalil disagrees with this retraction. The other authors have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction.