GLI1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: When patients were classified into two groups by GLI1 expression, a Low GLI1 and High GLI1 group using the median ratio of tumor/benign GLI1 expression as the cut-off value, most demographic and clinical characteristics were similar in the two groups, except that there were more HCC patients with alcoholic liver disease in the High GLI1 group (P<0.05) (Table S2).