TMED9 and hepatocellular carcinoma: According to the OS analysis by the SurvExpress website, we further found that elevated mRNA expression of some candidates correlated with a poor prognosis in HCC patients, especially Ezrin, Rab18, ILEU (SERPINB1), PSD7 (PSMD7), TMED9, and Rab7 (Fig. 1b).