The two Science articles, "Mitosis inhibits DNA double-strand break repair to guard against telomere fusions"from 2014, and"Orchestration of the DNA-damage response by the RNF8 ubiquitin ligase", from 2007, together have been cited nearly 1,000 times, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science. In an email, Jovana Drinjakovic, the science communications officer at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Sinai Health, confirmed the institution is investigating the 2014 paper.
On November 21, 2024 Nature added editor’s notes to two of Durocher’s (same author) papers, "A mechanism for the suppression of homologous recombination in G1 cells", from 2015, and "53BP1 is a reader of the DNA-damage-induced H2A Lys 15 ubiquitin mark", from 2013: "Readers are alerted that concerns have been raised regarding the reliability of data presented in this article. Further editorial action will be taken if appropriate once the investigation into the concerns is complete and all parties have been given an opportunity to respond in full."
