Meanwhile, several studies reported that LINC00467 plays a carcinogenic role in HCC by sponging miR-18a-5p or miR-509-3p (Zheng et al., 2020; Li W. et al., 2021), inhibiting NR4A3 (Wang et al., 2020), and binding to IGF2BP3. This evidence concerns the gene NR4A3 and hepatocellular carcinoma.