HBP1 and nasopharyngeal carcinoma: To clarify whether HBP1 is relevant to clinicopathological implications in patients with NPC, we first conducted bioinformatics analysis using a NPC gene microarray data from the Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array platform (HG-U133_Plus_2) in GEO Datasets (GEO accession: GSE12452).