HAVCR1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: Previous studies have shown that MEX3A and HAVCR1 were associated with hypoxia and immunity and may serve as potential prognostic markers for HCC (Ding et al., 2022; Hu et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2022) More importantly, the expression of HAVCR1, a gene related to fatty acid metabolism, can promote the proliferation, motility, and invasion of HCC cells (Zhu et al., 2022), which is consistent with the findings of our study.