As shown in Table 1, the promising SNPs associated with HCC risk were ERCC1 rs2298881-rs3212961, and we only analyzed haplotypes composed of these positive SNPs instead of the analysis for ERCC1 rs2298881-rs11615-rs3212955-rs3212961-rs3212986-rs735482, which simplified the analysis and obtained similar results to a complete analysis of all six SNPs. This evidence concerns the gene ERCC1 and hepatocellular carcinoma.