B3GALNT2 and hepatocellular carcinoma: Upregulation of B3GALNT2 in HCC was further confirmed by the published HCC datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database (TCGA-LIHC) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) datasets (GSE25097 [22] and GSE36376 [23]) (Fig. 1f).