Eventually, we assessed the association between GATA3 expression and the clinical characteristics of 70 HCC samples from the WCH dataset, which illustrated that low expression of GATA3 was significantly correlated with microvascular invasion (P = 0.0168), TNM stage (P = 0.0220) and BCLC stage (P = 0.0220) (Additional file 12: Table S2). The gene discussed is GATA3; the disease is hepatocellular carcinoma.