[Corrigendum] DJ‑1 promotes cell proliferation and tumor metastasis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma via the Wnt/β‑catenin signaling pathway.

Subsequently to the publication of the above article, an interested reader drew to the authors' attention that a pair of data panels featured between Figs. 4 and 7 contained overlapping data such that the data were derived from the same original source where they were intending to depict the results from experiments performed under different experimental conditions, and a pair of the data panels featured in Fig. 8 for the β‑catenin data also appeared to show overlapping data.

DJ‑1 promotes cell proliferation and tumor metastasis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma via the Wnt/β‑catenin signaling pathway.

DJ‑1, an oncogene, has been reported to be an independent prognostic indicator of poor survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of DJ‑1 in tumor cell proliferation and invasion in ESCC and its underlying mechanisms. It was observed that the expression level of DJ‑1 was upregulated and positively associated with EMT biomarkers in 84 human ESCC tissue specimens.