PVT1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: The model revealed that the combination of PVT1 and uc002mbe.2 showed the greatest predictive ability for HCC (supporting information table S2) with an AUC of 0.764 (95% CI: 0.684–0.833) (Fig. 1A) and a 10-fold cross-validation of 0.744 (95% CI: 0.662–0.815) (Fig. 1B).