Abstract: HCC patients also had a lower frequency of
T31C mutation in
pre-S2 gene, compared with control subjects (0.524; 95% CI 0.280-0.982).
Result: Among these nine hot spot mutations,
pre-S deletions,
pre-S start codon mutations,
T31C, and
T53C mutations were significantly associated with
HCC, showing adjusted ORs from 0.524 to 3.199 (Table 2).
Result: These included well-studied mutations (e.g., the
pre-S2 start codon mutation and
pre-S deletion) and less well-defined mutations (e.g.,
C3026A or T in
pre-S1