ECM1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: In addition to TFs, other genes that are involved in immune response (MARCO) (Sun et al., 2017), iron homeostasis regulation (HAMP) (Ren et al., 2018), proteoglycans synthesis (ECM1 (Chen et al., 2011), DCN (Horvath et al., 2014)) have been reported to be associated with the progression or prognosis of HCC.