The analysis of a publicly available HCC patient datasets from GEPIA29 (http://gepia.cancer-pku.cn) revealed that there was positive correlation between SCARB2 with MYC target genes (CDK4, LDHA, GLUT1, CCNA1, PLD6, and EIF3A) (Supplementary Fig. 3d). Here, LDHA is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.