Considering the importance of the PTEN gene and autophagy in HCC, we screened 5 genes (BFSP1, PPAT, EIF5B, ASF1A, and GNA14) associated with both the PTEN gene and autophagy by correlation analysis, univariate cox analysis, LASSO, and multivariate cox analysis. Here, PPAT is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.