Unexpectedly, proteomic results from the CPTAC database indicate that the BECN1 protein expression was up-regulated in HCC tissues compared to in normal tissues, which was paralleled by transcriptomics from the TCGA database at the mRNA level (http://ualcan.path.uab.edu/cgi-bin/ualcan-res.pl, accessed on 12 May 2022). Here, BECN1 is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.