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. 2017 Jan 9;10:247–257. doi: 10.2147/OTT.S124417

Table S3.

TNM-stage

References Country Ethnicity Histology Thyroid tumor
Methods
TNM-stage I
TNM-stage II–IV
U (n) M (n) U (n) M (n)
Santoro et al1 Italy Caucasian Thyroid carcinoma 3 3 6 6 MSP
Qu and Xue2 People’s Republic of China Asian Thyroid carcinoma 13 7 1 7 MSP
Dai et al4 People’s Republic of China Asian Thyroid carcinoma 15 23 5 7 MSP

Abbreviations: M, methylation sample; MSP, methylation-specific PCR; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; U, unmethylation sample.