KPNA2 and hepatocellular carcinoma: In HCC, KPNA2 overexpression and its prognostic effects were also reported in several studies (Jiang et al., 2014; Yang et al., 2017b; Chen et al., 2019; Guo et al., 2019; Liu et al., 2019; Yue et al., 2019; Yu et al., 2020).