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Specifically, during our initial internal evaluation of the manuscript, we found significant text overlap and re-use between your submission and the following previously published work(s) outside the Methods section:

https://www.ijbs.com/v13p1361.htm
https://www.pennstatehershey.org/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=ea3955dc-98cc-41fe-8797-29b575853231&groupId=101847
https://mct.aacrjournals.org/content/15/9/2187

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