YTHDF2 and hepatocellular carcinoma: Importantly, in a setting of 200 HCC patients (recruited from 2006 to 2012), lower YTHDF2 protein levels were significantly associated with more multinodular tumors and microvascular invasion, higher TNM and BCLC stage classification, and shorter overall and recurrence-free survival period (Additional file 2: Table S1, Additional file 1: Figure S2D and 1 K).