Table 5.

Multivariate analysis for the BRAF mutation and clinical features in 486 PTC patients from TCGA database

Characteristic	OR	95% CI	P-value
MUC1 high expression	8.129	4.979–13.271	0.000
Extrathyroid extension	2.396	1.063–5.399	0.035
Lymph node metastasis	1.705	1.046–2.778	0.032
T stage	0.475	0.214–1.050	0.066
Pathologic stage	1.165	0.648–2.095	0.611
Unifocal	1.404	0.875–2.255	0.161

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; MUC1, mucin 1; OR, odds ratio; PTC, papillary thyroid cancer; TCGA, The Cancer Genome Atlas.