ASGR1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: These data agree with those presented by Shi et al. (2013) and Witzigmann et al. (2016), who have shown decreased ASGR1 expression levels in HCC tumor tissues, both at the mRNA and protein level as well as works from Hu et al. (2012) who showed a decreased miR-122-5p expression in HCC compared to controls.