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Among the tumor tissues, higher HULC expression is positively associated with Edmondson histological grades or with hepatitis B (HBV) positive status. Moreover, HULC lncRNA is detected with higher frequency in the plasma of HCC patients compared to healthy controls. Higher HULC detection rates are observed in the plasma of patients with higher Edmondson grades or with HBV+ status. These findings indicate for the first time that the expression of HULC in plasma can be used as a noninvasive promising novel biomarker for the diagnosis and/or prognosis of HCC.</jats:p>","journal":"BioMed Research International","year":2013,"id":33343,"datarank":11.603184329228625,"base_score":5.713732805509369,"endowment":5.713732805509369,"self_citation_contribution":0.8570599208264055,"citation_network_contribution":10.74612440840222,"self_endowment_contribution":0.8570599208264055,"citer_contribution":10.74612440840222,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":302,"citer_count":200,"citers_with_citation_signal":200,"citers_with_endowment":200,"datacite_reuse_total":25,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":174697,"name":"Hongwei 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