The expression profile of E2F7 in HCC tissues and tumor cells was detected along with the related candidate genes, through real‐time quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay, the Western blot analysis, and the immunohistochemistry assay, combined with bioinformatics analysis of the HCC information from the the Cancer Genome Altas and Gene Expression Omnibus data sets. Here, E2F7 is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.