In our study, we first analyze the expression profiles of ARGs from TCGA and obtained a 17 autophagy-related prognostic genes (ATG16L1, FADD, GABARAPL2, NKX2–3, MYC, MAPK8IP1, WDR45B, MTMR14, HGS, USP10, NPC1, BIRC5, BNIP3, ATG3, RAB24, ULK3 and RUBCN) by univariate Cox regression analysis for detecting the prognosis of prostate cancer patients. Here, BIRC5 is linked to prostate cancer.