Table 3. Correlation between the expression levels of LINC00312 and miR-197-3p with clinicopathological characteristics of TC patients (n=211, mean ± S.D.).

Clinicopathological characteristics	Cases	LINC00312	P	miR-197-3p	P
Age (years)
<50	108	1.06 ± 0.36	0.082	2.95 ± 0.53	0.912
≥50	103	0.98 ± 0.30		2.94 ± 0.76
Gender
Male	99	1.04 ± 0.39	0.513	3.02 ± 0.62	0.092
Female	112	1.01 ± 0.27		2.87 ± 0.66
TNM
I/II	190	1.07 ± 0.29	<0.001	2.85 ± 0.54	<0.001
III/IV	21	0.62 ± 0.39		3.80 ± 0.87
Lymph node metastasis
No	142	1.08 ± 0.32	<0.001	2.81 ± 0.61	<0.001
Yes	69	0.90 ± 0.33		3.21 ± 0.65
Tissue-type
Papillary TC	108	1.16 ± 0.26	Ref.	2.70 ± 0.64	Ref.
Follicular TC	54	1.02 ± 0.31	0.003	2.95 ± 0.27	0.006
Squamous TC	36	0.77 ± 0.24	<0.001	3.32 ± 0.55	<0.001
Anaplastic TC	13	0.56 ± 0.36	<0.001	3.88 ± 0.82	<0.001
Tumor diameter (cm)
<1.0	139	1.09 ± 0.32	<0.001	2.79 ± 0.60	<0.001
≥1.0	72	0.90 ± 0.33		3.24 ± 0.64