Table 1 shows no intergroup differences in age, sex, TBIL, ALT, AST, Alb, Pre‐Alb, prothrombin time, platelet count, AFP, HBV‐DNA level, etiology of the liver disease, major hepatectomy, anatomic hepatectomy, chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis, tumor number and size, tumor capsule, microvascular invasion (MVI), and the Edmondson–Steiner grade (p > 0.05). The gene discussed is F2; the disease is chronic hepatitis.