TC	Thyroid cancer
FNA	Fine needle aspiration
PTC	Papillary thyroid cancer
FTC	Follicular thyroid cancer
ATC	Anaplastic thyroid cancer
MAPK	Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase
lncRNA	Long Non-Coding RNA
nt	Nucleotides
miRNA	MicroRNA
mRNA	Messenger RNA
Ce	Competing endogenous
LN	Lymph node
ETE	Extrathyroidal extension
GEO	Gene Expression Omnibus
NCBI	National Center for Biotechnology Information
TANRIC	The Atlas of non-coding RNA in cancer
BTN	Benign thyroid nodule
MALAT1	Metastasis Associated Lung Adenocarcinoma Transcript 1
FOXA1	Forkhead Box A1
HOTAIRM1	HOXA Transcript Antisense RNA
pri-miRNA	Primary miRNA
EMT	Epithelial-to-mesenchymal
c-Myc	Cellular myc
UCA1	Urothelial Carcinoma-Associated 1
TME	Tumor microenvironment
PD-L1	Programmed death ligand-1
PD-1	Programmed death-1
CTL	Cytotoxic T lymphocyte
OS	Overall survival
MANCR	Mitotically Associated Long Non-Coding RNA
RNAi	RNA-interference
siRNA	Short-interfering RNAs
NEAT1	Nuclear Paraspeckle Assembly Transcript 1
DDP	cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II)
SPAG9	Sperm-Associated Antigen 9
PAR5	Prader Willi/Angelman Region RNA5
(SOX2OT	SOX2 overlapping transcript
DANCR	Differentiation antagonizing non-coding RNA
TINCR	Tissue differentiation-induced non-coding RNA
LUCAT1	Lung Cancer Associated Transcript 1
HOTTIP	HOXA Transcript at the Distal Tip
LINC	Long Intergenic Non-Coding
BANCR	BRAF-Activated Non-Coding RNA
COMET	Correlated-to-MET
CASC2	Cancer Susceptibility Candidate 2
ZEB1	Zinc Finger E-box-Binding Homeobox 1
VEGF	Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
HCP5	HLA complex P5
GAS5	Growth arrest specific transcript 5