RETRACTED: Association between peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor, UCP3 and lipoprotein lipase gene polymorphisms and obesity in Chinese adolescents.
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).

Please note that this retraction notice has been updated in September 2021, as follows:

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors in Chief due to concerns regarding the authorship. Certain individuals were erroneously indicated as co-authors of the article when it was originally published. These individuals have informed the journal that they did not contribute to the article and that they had no knowledge of its submission for publication.

We confirm, following investigation, that those individuals previously identified by the submitting author as co-authors did not author, approve or submit this article for publication, and the previous attribution of the article to them was in error.

We have not had a response from Dr Mao and Dr Cai regarding authorship.

As a result of the correspondence with Associate Professor Z. Zou and Dr L. Wang, we believe that the paper needs to be retracted and have elected to proceed with retraction.
Department of Physical Education, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu 610041, PR China; Department of Nutrition, Xin Hua Hospital Afﬁliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, PR China.
Zhichun
Z
Zou
Department of Physical Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, PR China.
Lijuan
L
Mao
Jianhua
J
Chen
Lishan
L
Wang
Department of Nutrition, Xin Hua Hospital Afﬁliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, PR China.
Wei
W
Cai
Lipoprotein lipase; Obesity; Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Uncoupling protein