Table 1.

Characteristics of miR-34a gene expression used in the analysis of GEO datasets

GEO accession	Author	Sample size		Country	Platform
		HCC patients	Healthy controls
GSE10694	Gu et al.	78	88	China	GPL6542
GSE12717	Su et al.	10	6	China	GPL7274
GSE22058	Burchard	73	73	USA	GPL10457
GSE21362	Sato et al.	96	96	Japan	GPL10312
GSE31383	Hoshida et al.	9	10	USA	GPL10122
GSE36915	Lee et al.	68	21	Taiwan	GPL8179
GSE40744	Farci et al.	14	12	USA	GPL14613
GSE41874	Okano et al.	6	4	Japan	GPL7722
GSE64632	Selaru et al.	6	6	USA	GPL18116
GSE67882	Banerjee et al.	4	8	India	GPL10850
GSE69580	Hung et al.	5	5	Taiwan	GPL10850
GSE20594	Hoshida et al.	45	32	USA	GPL10122
GSE67138	Chuang et al.	23	34	USA	GPL8786
GSE67139	Chuang et al.	63	57	USA	GPL8786