The Editorial Board of the Journal of Reproduction and Infertility (JRI) has recently confirmed that the manuscript titled: "Correlation of Sperm Associated Antigen 11 (SPAG11) and its Isoforms with Varicocele in Rats", written by Hong Tian et al, published in volume 13, issue 4, pp. 241-247 has been published previously in Chinese. Therefore this paper is retracted, considering the fact that it is contrary to the journal’s policy.
We regret the time that peer reviewers and others spent for evaluation of this paper and hope that there will be no repetition of this problems in the future.