Table 1 Familial hepatocellular carcinoma

Kaplan and Cole [20]

3 male adult siblings aged 64, 49 and 44

Hagstrom and Baker [21]

3 male siblings aged 11, 22 and 31

Denison et al. [22]

Familial hepatoma on background micronodular cirrhosis

Ohbayashi et al. [17]

Familial clustering of asymptomatic carriers

Gilmore et al. [29]

3 or 4 male siblings in Chinese family

Lynch et al. [7]

2 familial aggregations in Costa Rica

Harvey et al. [23]

3 male siblings aged 33, 43, 46

Chang et al. [24]

2 pairs of young brothers (5 and 7years) and (9 and 7years)

Lok et al. [25]

Morbidity and mortality from chronic hepatitis B virus infection in family members

Alberts et al. [26]

Clustering of hepatocellular carcinoma in Alaska Native families

Weledji et al. [3]

BMC Research notes

2 male siblings aged, 24 and 35 in endemic area in Cameroon