NCBP2 and hepatocellular carcinoma: To further investigate the role of immune cell infiltration in HCC, TIMER database analysis revealed that the NCBP2 expression was most positively correlated with macrophages (r = 0.551, p = 1.97 × 10−28) and CD4+ T cells (r = 0.484, p = 1.37 × 10−21).