TSPOAP1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: Curious whether this aberrant expression of BZRAP1-AS1 is associated with other clinical characteristics of HCC patients, we sought to assess correlations of clinical features of HCC with BZRAP1-AS1 expression and found that BZRAP1-AS1 expression was related to tumor size, microvascular invasion and tumor node metastasis (TNM) stage of HCC patients, but not related to the age, sex, Edmondson’s grade and liver cirrhosis (Table 3).