“…A number of research studies have unveiled that aberrant DNA Abbreviations 5-aza-dC, 5-aza-2ʹ-deoxycytidine; CGI, CpG island; DEmRNA, differentially expressed mRNA; FC, fold change; HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; MSP, methylation-specific PCR; MTT, 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl-tetrazolium bromide; NC, negative control; PZP, pregnancy zone protein; SD, standard deviation; TCGA-LIHC, The Cancer Genome Atlas Liver Hepatocellular Carcinoma. methylation is able to facilitate tumor cell proliferation, invasion and migration of colorectal cancer [8], gastric cancer [9], liver cancer [10,11], HCC [12] and so on.…”