Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction.- 1. Overview of HCC: biology and pathology.- Xin Wei Wang, Joe Grisham and Snorri Thorgeirsson.- 2. Overview of CC:.- Part II: Liver development and pathogenesis.- 3. Embryonic development of the liver.- Kenneth S. Zaret.- 4. Human hepatic cell lineages.- Nelson Fausto.- 5. Pathology of Human Liver Cancer.- Masamichi Kojiro.- Part III: Genetics and epidemiology of liver cancer.- 6. HCC.- Hashem El.Serag.- 7. CC.- Greg Gores.- Part IV: Molecular Basis of Cancer Susceptibility.- 8. Yusuke Nakamura (NCC).- 9. Hereditary liver diseases with a high risk to develop HCC.- Markus Grompe, [ALSO Marie-Annick Buendia].- 10. Genetics and epigenetics of preneoplastic liver diaseses and human HCC.- 11. HBV: Jack Wands.- 12. HCV: Stanly Lemon.- 13. Fibrosis and cirrhosis studies.- David Brenner .- 14. Methylation status in chronic liver disease and HCC.- Yae Kanai (Japan).- Part V. Animal models.- 15. Transgenic mouse models.- Snorri Thorgeirsson & Joe Grisham .- 16. Mosaic mouse model.- Scott Lowe.- 17. Zebrafish model.- Zhiyuan Gong (NUS): .- Part VI: Global gene expression profiling of human liver cancer.- 18. Integrative and functional genomics of HCC.- Snorri Thorgeirsson: .- 19. Molecular signatures of metastatic HCC .- Xin Wei Wang.- 20. Liver cancer heterogeneity and tumor subtypes.- Jessica Rossi.- 21. Gene expression studies in cholangiocarcinoma.- Yoichi Furokawa.- Part VII: Cancer stem cells.- 22. Snorri Thorgeirsson.- 23. Tania Roskams.- Part VIII: Liver cancer genetics in the clinic.- 24. Biomarkers and clinical staging of liver cancer.- Josep Llovet.- 25. Molecular signaling in HCC.- Hong Yang Wang (Shanghai).- 26. Molecular oncology and HCC.- Zhao-You Tang (Shanghai).- 27. Molecular pathogenesis of HCC.- Irene Ig (Hong Kong).