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The 80 patients with biopsy-proven alcoholic liver disease were not We are writing in response to your letter pointing out the always diagnosed as alcohol dependent by psychiatrists. existence of overlaps in content in our articles published in However, 62 of 80 patients and 60 healthy controls were used HEPATOLOGY 1 and the Journal of Hepatology. 2 The letter for analysis in the Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental showed that we submitted the data to two different journals Research paper. The reference 4 had to be added in the two using the same materials while assuring each journal that journals. the material was not under consideration elsewhere. Indeed
We intend, in our individual ways, to ensure that an incithere are areas of duplication in the papers. We have to apolodent like this will not occur a second time. gize for this lapse of professional ethics. We read your previous editorial thoroughly. 3 We did not understand well enough the limits of the materials we could analyze. Although this MASAYOSHI YAMAUCHI, M.D. was not our intent, we recognize that such duplication is YOSHIHIKO MAEZAWA, M.D. inappropriate and against the publication guidelines of both YUJI MIZUHARA, M.D. journals.
MITSURU OHATA, M.D. The content of the Journal of Hepatology paper was pri-JUNICHI HIRAKAWA, M.D.