In addition, a major finding of this study is that we found that five regulatory axes of CYTOR/MIR4435/DANCR-hsa-miR-125b-5p-CDKN2A, CYTOR/MIR4435-hsa-miR-125b-5p-GLS may be involved in the progression of HCC. Here, DANCR is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.