Given that the EMT process is associated with cancer cell migration and invasion, we tested the impact of altered circUBE2J2 expression on the relative levels of N-cadherin, Occludins, and Vimentin expression in HCC cells by western blot (Fig. 3C and Additional File 2 Supplementary Fig. S2k). This evidence concerns the gene CDH2 and hepatocellular carcinoma.