FoxO3 restricts liver regeneration by suppressing the proliferation of hepatocytes.

"rna sequencing data have been deposited in ncbi sequence read archive (sra) under the accession code srp224045.; rna-sequencing data have been deposited in ncbi sequence read archive (sra) under the accession code srp224045."

"Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"This work was supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFA0103302 and 2016YFE0204700), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91649203, 82070257, 81770240, 81570222, 31802025, and 81270183), the Guangdong Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar (2014A030306011), the Guangdong Science and Technology Planning Project (2014A050503043), the New Star of Pearl River on Science and Technology of Guangzhou (2014J2200002), the Top Young Talents of Guangdong Province Special Support Program (87315007), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (21617436), and the Research Grant of Key Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Ministry of Education, Jinan University (ZSYX-M-2019-00009, ZSYXM202004, and ZSYXM202104), China."