MAGEA12 and hepatocellular carcinoma: The average melting peak temperature value for the HCC without PVTT was lower than for the average HCC with PVTT indicating hypomethylation within MAGEA12 probe in non-invasive tumors (Table 3, Figure 2B-chart 5), although the change was not statistically significant in our set of samples (P = 0.64, Mann-Whitney U test).