Table 2.

Correlation analysis among the expression levels of the EMT transcription factor, E-cadherin, and vimentin from the present case study consisting of 95 PTCs (A) or from the TGCA case study consisting of 388 PTCs (B). Correlations among all the mRNAs were evaluated using the Spearman’s Rho test.

(A) Correlation Coefficient
	Twist1	Snail1	Snail2	Zeb1	Zeb2	E-Cadherin	Vimentin
Twist1 p-value	1.000	0.120	0.448	0.464	0.360	−0.155	0.128
	-	0.246	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.133	0.220
Snail1 p-value		1.000	0.339	0.378	0.369	0.376	0.393
		-	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Snail2 p-value			1.000	0.581	0.552	−0.007	0.335
			-	<0.001	<0.001	0.943	0.001
Zeb1 p-value				1.000	0.745	0.005	0.330
				-	<0.001	0.961	0.001
Zeb2 p-value					1.000	−0.089	0.343
					-	0.392	0.001
E-Cadherin p-value						1.000	0.292
						-	0.004
Vimentin p-value							1.000
							-
(B) Correlation Coefficient
	Twist1	Snail1	Snail2	Zeb1	Zeb2	E-Cadherin	Vimentin
Twist1 p-value	1.000	0.249	0.694	0.291	0.502	−0.181	0.265
	-	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Snail1 p-value		1.000	0.321	0.235	0.192	0.276	0.264
		-	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Snail2 p-value			1.000	0.552	0.697	−0.019	0.256
			-	<0.001	<0.001	0.714	<0.001
Zeb1 p-value				1.000	0.720	−0.095	0.076
				-	<0.001	0.061	0.135
Zeb2 p-value					1.000	−0.060	0.343
					-	0.242	<0.05
E-Cadherin p-value						1.000	0.096
						-	0.060
Vimentin p-value							1.000
							-