Figure 5

Besides Carbohydrate metabolism, the lipid metabolism was also demonstrated to be of high relevance. Based on the expression profile of genes associated with the lipid metabolism, Kaplan Meier estimated survival resulted in two prognostically distinct groups. These subgroups were identified by unsupervised clustering of 139 patients with HCC based on the pathway category “lipid metabolism” (group A contained 68 patients and group B contained 71 patients; p-values were determined by log-rank test).