BRAF and hepatocellular carcinoma: The influence of these genes and proteins on HCC, after BRAF overexpression in Huh-7 cells (Fig. 7C and D), was determined by investigating the proliferation as well as the anti-apoptotic ability of Huh-7 cells and is displayed in (Fig. 7E, F, G, and H) and it was observed that the BRAF overexpression enhances the proliferation ability of HCC cells, while arresting the cells in the S and G2/M phase, and thus reducing the ability of cellular apoptosis.