Significant risk factors included Chinese and Malay ethnicities that interacted with viral hepatitis (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 11.77, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.39–99.79) and (AOR = 37.94, 95% CI: 3.92–367.61) respectively, weight loss (AOR = 5.28, 95% CI: 2.29–12.19), abdominal pain/ discomfort (AOR = 6.73, 95% CI: 3.34–13.34), alcohol (AOR = 4.08, 95% CI: 1.81–9.22), fatty liver (AOR = 3.29, 95% CI: 1.40–7.76), low platelet (AOR = 4.03, 95% CI:1.90–8.55), raised alanine transaminase (AOR = 2.11, 95% CI: 1.16–3.86). This evidence concerns the gene GPT and viral hepatitis.