TM4SF4 and hepatocellular carcinoma: Next, TM4SF4 expression in HCC cases were compared with the aforementioned seven HCC therapeutic targets in three independent transcriptomics datasets, i.e., TCGA (n = 366), GSE14520 (n = 225) and CNHPP (n = 35), as well as in the proteomics CHCC (n = 165) dataset.