The correlations between BI-1 and Bax mRNA expression were also significant when patients with HCV-related CH (r = 0.59; P = 0.0005) (Figure 4B) or HCV-genotype-1-related CH (r = 0.68; P = 0.0017) (Figure 4C) were considered separately. Here, TMBIM6 is linked to cyclic hematopoiesis.