Table 3. Pair-wise correlation coefficients (R) for CHEK1, c-KIT, SLC26A4, TPO and TGlevels in FTCs.

Genes	R	p-value
CHEK1/c-KIT	−0.19	0.0926
CHEK1/SLC26A4	−0.32	0.0045
CHEK1/TG	−0.51	0
CHEK1/TPO	−0.43	0.0001
KIT/SLC26A4	0.64	0
KIT/TG	0.45	0
KIT/TPO	0.63	0
SLC26A4/TG	0.64	0
SLC26A4/TPO	0.62	0
TG/TPO	0.79	0