Tissue microarray (TMA) paraffinblocks were prepared from 42 HCC tumor samples with the correspondingperi-tumor tissues and from 11 tissues of a liver with HCV-induced cirrhosis.We found that the UCKL-1 signal in the liver tissues of the peri-tumor zone inthe HCC samples was stronger than that in cirrhosis (50 ± 49.44 vs. 24.27± 14.53; p = 0.014). The gene discussed is UCKL1; the disease is neoplasm.