RETRACTION: Berbers And Arabs: Tracing The Genetic Diversity And History of Southern Tunisia Through Genome Wide...

P. Anagnostou, V. Dominici, C. Battaggia, N. Boukhchim, J. Ben Nasr, R. Boussoffara, E. Cancellieri, M. Marnaoui, M. Marzouki, H. Bel Haj Brahim, M. Bou Rass, S. di Lernia, G. Destro Bisol, "Berbers And Arabs: Tracing The Genetic Diversity And History of Southern Tunisia Through Genome Wide Analysis," American Journal of Biological Anthropology 173, no. 4 (2020): 697-708, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24139. The above article, published online on 16 September 2020 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the authors; the journal's Editors-in-Chief, Trudy Turner and Connie Mulligan; the American Association of Biological Anthropologists; and Wiley Periodicals LLC. Concerns were raised by a third party regarding the study's collection of genetic information from participants, and the timing of ethical approval in relation to data collection. The institution provided a copy of the ethical approval certificate; however, the University and the co-authors were unable to locate additional documentation that could help address the concerns raised about the consent procedure. Wiley investigators also learned that the first and corresponding author, Paolo Anagnostou, had passed away since the publication of the study. As a result, the senior author and population geneticist Giovanni Destro Bisol, in agreement with the authors, has proactively requested the retraction of their article.