Table 3.

Relationship between the expression levels of the top 10 lncRNAs and clinicopathological features of PTC based on TCGA data

	Age		Gender		Histological type		Recurrence		Tumor size		Lymph node		TNM stage		Distant metastasis
	Z	P	Z	P	Z	P	Z	P	Z	P	Z	P	Z	P	Z	P
CTD‐2008L172	0.24	0.813	1.23	0.220	2.10	0.036	−1.01	0.314	−2.84	0.005	−2.72	0.007	−2.51	0.012	−0.06	0.954
HAGLROS	1.96	0.050	1.38	0.166	−2.24	0.025	1.28	0.199	0.46	0.647	0.71	0.475	1.68	0.092	1.45	0.147
AC0936091	−0.50	0.616	0.35	0.723	−2.23	0.025	−1.81	0.070	−1.18	0.239	1.19	0.235	0.46	0.645	−2.06	0.040
LINC01354	0.08	0.933	−1.72	0.085	0.74	0.459	−2.08	0.037	−0.47	0.642	−0.81	0.415	−1.38	0.167	−2.48	0.013
RP11‐547D24.1	−0.52	0.600	2.67	0.008	1.90	0.058	−0.83	0.407	−2.91	0.004	−2.36	0.018	−3.57	0.000	−1.06	0.289
UNC5B‐AS1	0.64	0.524	1.13	0.258	−2.25	0.024	0.95	0.340	1.95	0.052	1.53	0.125	2.16	0.031	2.56	0.010
RP11‐363E74	−2.49	0.013	2.43	0.015	−1.72	0.086	1.30	0.192	0.40	0.686	0.08	0.933	−0.78	0.436	0.79	0.432
LINC01977	−1.87	0.062	1.70	0.088	−0.56	0.573	1.71	0.087	−0.12	0.906	0.71	0.480	0.07	0.941	2.19	0.028
RUNDC3A‐AS1	0.24	0.813	0.56	0.575	2.65	0.008	1.90	0.058	−0.58	0.560	−2.18	0.029	0.01	0.992	1.40	0.161
RP3‐483K164	−0.31	0.759	−0.08	0.937	1.23	0.22	−1.18	0.237	−3.09	0.002	−2.51	0.012	−1.92	0.055	0.30	0.765

lncRNAs, Long noncoding RNAs; PTC, papillary thyroid carcinoma; TCGA, The Cancer Genome Atlas.