Consistent with our previous studies, we found that the expression of Notch1 was higher in the tumors from HCC patients than in livers of healthy individuals (Fig. 4a, 1.77 fold, FDR = 0.0017) using the external dataset from starBase v3.0 project which consists of 374 HCC samples and 50 normal samples. Here, NOTCH1 is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.