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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Liver Int. 2015 Jun 29;36(1):108–118. doi: 10.1111/liv.12889

Table 3.

Tumor-related clinicopathological features associated with HCC molecular subclasses in the training set (logistic regression).

Variable Univariable analysis
Multivariable analysis
No. of HCC tumors (%) OR (95% Cl) P value OR (95% Cl) P value


S1 subclass S1: n=30 / Rest: n=66
SH-HCC 11 (37%) / 8 (12%) 4.20 (1.47–11.97) 0.007 4.25 (1.44–13.20) 0.01
Immune cell infiltrate ≥ 2 18 (60%) / 21 (32%) 3.21 (1.31–7.87) 0.01 3.25 (1.29–8.53) 0.01
S2 subclass S2: n=27 / Rest: n=69
Microtrabecular 4 (15%) / 49 (71%) 0.07 (0.02–0.23) <0.001
Macrotrabecular/compact 22 (81%) / 16 (23%) 14.58 (4.75–44.69) <0.001 11.99 (3.48–41.24) <0.001
Pseudoglandular 2 (7%) / 29 (42%) 0.11 (0.02–0.50) 0.004 0.22 (0.04–1.16) 0.07
Clear cell 14 (52%) / 9 (13%) 7.18 (2.56–20.11) <0.001
Serum AFP > 400 ng/mL 6 (22%) / 2 (3%) 9.57 (1.80–51.03) 0.008 10.81 (1.27–91.63) 0.03
S3 subclass S3: n=39 / Rest: n=57
Microtrabecular 32 (82%) / 21 (37%) 7.84 (2.94–20.86) <0.001 3.94 (1.23–12.56) 0.02
Macrotrabecular/compact 6 (15%) / 32 (56%) 0.14 (0.05–0.39) <0.001
Pseudoglandular 19 (49%) / 11 (19%) 3.56 (1.46–8.71) 0.005
SH-HCC 1 (3%) / 18 (32%) 0.06 (0.01–0.45) 0.006 0.05 (0.01–0.44) 0.007
Clear cell 3 (8%) / 20 (35%) 0.15 (0.04–0.56) 0.005 0.20 (0.05–0.91) 0.04
Edmondson-Steiner I or II 36 (92%) / 42 (74%) 4.29 (1.15–16.00) 0.03 3.08 (0.65–14.58) 0.16

HCC: hepatocellular carcinoma, OR: odds ratio, CI: confidence interval, SH-HCC: steatohepatitic HCC, AFP: alpha-fetoprotein