TGFB1 and Hepatic fibrosis: Since the TGFβ pathway is one of the well-investigated signaling cascades in liver fibrosis and the GO and KEGG pathway analysis revealed that lnc-LFAR1 silencing affects a list of genes associated with TGFβ receptor signaling pathway (Fig. 4d, e and Supplementary Fig. 9c, d), we were interested in the functional role of lnc-LFAR1 involved in the TGFβ pathway.