Statistical analysis
Data collection was conducted in triplicate, with the outcomes
represented as the mean ± SD. Statistical evaluation of RT-qPCR findings
from HCC tissues and their corresponding tissues utilized a paired
Student’s t-test. To identify statistical variations in the remaining
data, we employed either an unpaired Student’s t-test or a one-way
analysis of variance (ANOVA) accompanied by Tukey’s post-hoc test.
Kaplan-Meier analysis accompanied by a log-rank test was adopted to
ascertain differences in overall survival (OS) between the two groups of
patients. GraphPad Prism 6.0 (GraphPad Software, Inc.) facilitated the
statistical computations. A P value of less than 0.05 was seen as
statistically consequential.