STING1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: We at first presented the transcriptional expression profile of gene markers within the STING pathway in various HCC datasets from TCGA (n = 366), ICGC (n = 243), and GSE14520 (n = 242), among which GSE14520 dataset underlying chip platform only showed the transcriptional data of eleven members included in the STING pathway (Fig. 1A, D, and G).