AXL and hepatocellular carcinoma: GSEA analysis on the CCLE RNA-seq dataset inclusive of all the 28 HCC cell lines confirmed enrichment of transcripts pertaining to EMT in Axl-overexpressing cell lines (FDR q = 0.20, Fig. 1d), which was validated in the TCGA dataset (FDR q < 0.001, Fig. 1e).