Although similar studies have been previously performed on the HepG2 hepatocellular carcinoma parent clone demonstrating that albumin prevents proliferation (Nojiri & Joh, 2014; Bağırsakçı et al., 2017), experiments in this study were carried out on the HepG2/C3A subclone and were contradictory to these earlier findings. The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is hepatocellular carcinoma.