Having tested the influence of Notch-1 on autophagy as indicated by Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) in Gastric cancer network 1: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosystems/760635, Western blot analysis was conducted to detect the impact of Notch-1 on E2F7 expression. This evidence concerns the gene E2F7 and gastric cancer.