For the training cohort, 19 clinicopathological features consisted of age, gender, HCV-Ab, HBsAg, a-fetoprotein, tumor differentiation, Child-Pugh score, intrahepatic metastasis, tumor size, vascular invasion, BCLC staging, ALT, γ-GT, liver cirrhosis, tumor number, and distant metastasis and the expression of the serum lncRNAs mentioned above was considered for the univariate analysis with Cox proportional hazards regression. Here, GPT is linked to cirrhosis of liver.