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). This evidence concerns the gene SLC2A1 and hepatocellular carcinoma.