PTC	Papillary thyroid cancer
M1	Distant metastases present
M0	Distant metastases absent
qPCR	Quantitative polymerase chain reaction
DTC	Differentiated thyroid cancer
TNM	Tumor, nodes, metastasis
ATA	American thyroid association
HG-U133A	Affymetrix human genome U133A arrays
HG-U133 Plus 2.0	Affymetrix human genome U-133 plus 2.0 arrays
SLR	Signal log ratios
FDR	False discovery rate
FC	Fold change
lnc-RNA	Long non-coding RNA
RNA-Seq	RNA sequencing
CTC	Circulating tumor cells
CNS	Central nervous system
RAI	Radioiodine
KEGG	The Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
GSEA	Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
NES	Normalized Enrichment Score