ANOVA	Analysis of variance
ATAC-PCR	Adapter-tagged competitive polymerase chain reaction
AUC	Area under the ROC curve
DLDA	Diagonal linear discrimination analysis
FDR	False discovery rate
FF	Fresh-frozen
FFPE	Formaldehyde-fixed paraffin embedded
FNAB	Fine needle aspiration biopsy
FTA	Follicular thyroid adenoma
FTC	Follicular thyroid cancer
HDSS	High-throughput differential screening by serial analysis of gene expression
IQR	Interquartile range
LOOCV	Leave-one-out cross validation
OTC	Oncocytic thyroid carcinoma
PCA	Principal component analysis
Q1	First quartile
Q3	Third quartile
qRT-PCR	Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction
RIN	RNA integrity number
ROC	Receiver operating characteristc
SAGE	Serial analysis of gene expression
WHO	World Health Organization