Fig. 5: Oncogenic role of STMN1 in HCC validated by TCGA database.

A Box plot of STMN1 expression between tumor and non-tumor tissues in HCC, analyzed by GEPIA database (http://gepia.cancer-pku.cn/) based upon TCGA data. B Violin plot of STMN1 expression according to different subgroups in TCGA database. C STMN1 expression in ten paired HCC specimens in TCGA database. D, E Overall Survival (OS) and Disease-Free Survival (DFS) of low-STMN1 group and high-STMN1 group in HCC. These results were also obtained from the GEPIA database. F WGCNA analysis of HCC patients in TCGA database. The detailed information on WGCNA was in Fig. S3. The module-trait relationships in TCGA were displayed. “None-VI”, “Micro-VI”, and “Macro-VI” means that HCC patients are with none vascular invasion, microvascular invasion (MVI), and macrovascular invasion, respectively.