CDH1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: Positive expression of E-cadherin was detected in 70.0 % (21/30) of the HCC specimens with negative expression of BCORL1, whereas only 35.7 % (20/56) of BCORL1 positively expressing HCC cases showed a positive E-cadherin signal (P < 0.05, Fig. 4a).