The News & Views article 'Alzheimer's disease: From big data to mechanism' by Vivek Swarup and Daniel H. Geschwind (Nature 500, 34–35; 2013) commented on the paper 'Integrative genomics identifies APOE ε4 effectors in Alzheimer's disease' by H. Rhinn et al. (Nature 500, 45–50; 2013). This paper has now been retracted. For further information, see http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14591