| ATC | anaplastic thyroid carcinoma |
| AUC | area under the curve |
| BTL | benign thyroid lesions |
| CpG | 5-cytosine-phosphate-guanine-3 |
| FTC | follicular thyroid carcinoma |
| NT | non-neoplastic adjacent tissues |
| PDTC | poorly-differentiated thyroid carcinoma |
| PTC | papillary thyroid carcinoma |
| TCGA | The Cancer Genome Atlas |
| TSH | Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone |
| WDTC | well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma |
| WDTC-GP | good-prognosis well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma |
| WDTC-PP | poor-prognosis well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma |