C1QBP and hepatocellular carcinoma: Besides the observation that C1QBP mRNA is more expressed in patients with HCC (Figure 1) and the high expression of C1QBP is correlated with a poor prognosis (Figure 2 and Figure 3), protein expression results from HPA database also revealed the trend that C1QBP protein might be higher expressed in tumor tissues compared with the normal tissues (Figure 1J).