AURKB and hepatocellular carcinoma: Yasen et al [40] studying the role and expression of aurora B and its variants, wild type, splicing variant 1 and 2 in hepatocarcinogenesis and in liver tumors concluded that aurora B splicing variant 2 (SV2) was associated with hepatocellular cancers (HCCs) diagnosed with vascular invasion of hepatic and portal veins.