As presented in Table 4 and Fig. 1, the median of plasma MBL2 level in HCC cases was 2167 ng/ml, while the corresponding level in controls was 2257 ng/ml.The results of Mann-Whitney’s U test suggested that the difference was significant, indicating that the MBL2 level was significantly suppressed in HCC cases when comparing with the healthy controls (P = 0.004). Here, MBL2 is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.