A set of genes including PRPF38A, RIOK3, QSER1, PSMC3IP, ATAD3B, MGC12982, and C20ORF27 were significantly overexpressed in HCC-R tumor tissue with fold changes ≥4 (P = 0.001 to 0.0001). Here, QSER1 is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.