Indeed, several public GEO HCC datasets, such as GSE50579, GSE45411, GSE6764, and GSE20140, and the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) database [24] also showed that DAP3 expression was higher in HCC tissues than in normal liver tissues or matched para-tumour samples (Fig. 1C, D). This evidence concerns the gene DAP3 and neoplasm.