Factors including age, HBV infection, MS, DM, total bilirubin, AST, platelet count, albumin, INR, serum creatinine, tumor histology, tumor size, tumor involvement of resected margin, and vascular invasion were associated with outcome after liver resection in univariate analysis (P < .10) and hence selected for the multivariate analysis (Table 4). The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is neoplasm.