AGFG1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: We speculated that this status was mainly caused by the fact that the RAB score recombined the crucial genes of the RAB family-related DEGs through the PCA score method, which contains multiple gene patterns and could well characterize the TME features according to the expression of crucial genes, but not all of these essential genes were prognostic stratification genes; thus, the RAB score was not suitable for prognostic assessment of HCC.