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Fig. S1. Prevalence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) according to the number of mutations in the X/precore regions of hepatitis B virus (HBV), showing low, intermediate and high risk for patients with mutations ≤2, 3–5 and ≥6, respectively.

Fig. S2. Proportion of individual mutations at each number of mutations in the X/precore regions.

Fig. S3. Comparison of distribution in the mutational combination patterns between hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and non-HCC groups.

Fig. S4. Comparison of sensitivity and specificity for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) detection between α-fetoprotein and mutation numbers by ROC.

Table S1. Sequence of primers in this study.

Table S2. Comparison of frequencies between hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and non-HCC groups in each pattern of the 55 mutational combination patterns.

Table S3. Linear increasing trend of the proportion of cases with α-fetoprotein (AFP) ≥ 20 ng/mL in serum according to the number of accumulated mutations in total cases (n = 150).

Table S4. Validation analysis using hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA sequences registered in the GenBank database.

Data S1. Polymerase chain reaction for restriction fragment mass polymorphism (RFMP) assay.

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