Table 1. Clinical characteristics of LIHC patients in TCGA database.

Characteristics	Tumor	Normal
Gender, n
Male	236	22
Female	110	19
Age (years), n
Mean	59	61
Median	61	68
Pathologic stage, n
Stage I	171	18
Stage II	85	10
Stage III	85	12
Stage IV	5	1
Pathologic M, n
M0	263	32
M1	4	1
MX	79	8
Pathologic N, n
N0	253	31
N1	4	1
NX	89	9
Pathologic T, n
T1	173	19
T2	87	10
T3	76	12
T4	10	0

LIHC, liver hepatocellular carcinoma; TCGA, The Cancer Genome Atlas; M, metastasis; N, node; T, tumor.