Differences of core genes in liver fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma: Evidence from integrated bioinformatics and immunohistochemical analysis

Figure 6 The relationship between decorin, dermatopontin, SRY-box transcription factor 9 expression and survival rate of hepatocellular carcinoma patients. A-C: Decorin (DCN), dermatopontin (DPT), and SRY-box transcription factor 9 (SOX9) were analyzed by gene expression profiling interactive analysis server (GEPIA) to determine their expression level differences between hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and normal liver tissues. Red box represents tumor tissue and gray box represents normal tissue; D-F: Prognostic information of hub genes. Kaplan-Meier plotter online tool was used to identify the prognostic information of DCN, DPT and SOX9, which associated with the survival rate of HCC patients (^aP < 0.05).