After the assessment of publication novelty through an online PubMed database retrieval, we further selected a total of six interesting genes, including GAS2L3, SNRPA, SNRPD2, SEMA3F, IQCA1 and OIT3. We tried to verify the expression difference of these genes between the HCC tissues and adjacent normal tissues within our Chinese HLivH060PG02 HCC cohort. Here, OIT3 is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.