We verified the expression of LINC00853 in publicly available HCC RNA‐Seq datasets (TCGA_LIHC, GSE94660, GSE124535, and GSE114564) and found that it was not only consistently overexpressed in HCC in all three datasets, but also that its expression increased with the progression of liver disease to HCC (Fig. 1D, 1E, P = 0.0017). Here, LINC00853 is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.