SNRPE and hepatocellular carcinoma: SNRPE protein is a core component of Sm proteins, which has been reported in some malignancies, including bladder cancer (Tapak et al., 2015), prostate cancer (Anchi et al., 2012), hepatocellular carcinoma (Jia et al., 2011), and non-small cell lung cancer (Valles et al., 2012).