“…While in HCC-favorable gene set, many genes have been identified to be associated with HCC, such as VIPR1, CPEB3, HTR2A-AS1, ACSM3, ADRA1A, AKR1D1, BHMT, CD226, CD5L, CYP3A4, CYP3A43, DMGDH, ESR1, GLYATL1 and RDH16. Low expression of VIPR1 had an adverse prognostic impact on HCC [20], loss of ACSM3 expression was found to correlate with advanced HCC stages and a poor survival [21], down-regulation of BHMT in HCC associates with poor prognosis [22], low-expressed of CD226 could promote proliferative, migrating, and invasive activities of HCC cells [23], down-regulation of CYP3A4 gene is an independent predictor of early recurrence of HCC [24]. The results of the previous study were consistent with our findings.…”