In the NCBI and Ensembl (ENST) data base, five variants of Linc00176/C20orf204 namely NM_001348090.1, XM_024451876.1, ENST00000444463.5, ENST00000431158.1 and ENST00000636176.1 are listed, although ENST00000444463.5 and EENST00000431158.1 contain the whole Exon 2, and as a result just a 79 amino acid long open reading frame at a different part of Exon 2 than in the HCC-specific splice variant of Linc00176 (Fig. S1). This evidence concerns the gene C20orf204 and hepatocellular carcinoma.