Afterwards, emerging clinical evidences indicated that overexpression of PIWIL1 could be detected in different tumors including breast, colon, oesophageal, gastric, pancreatic, and hepatocellular carcinoma, and the expression of PIWIL1 was correlated with histological grade of tumor, clinical stage, and poorer clinical outcome of patients [19–22]. Here, PIWIL1 is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.