Clinical feature	Statistical test	Significant genes	Associated with	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;	Associated with	
Time to Death	Cox regression test	N=0	 	 	 	 
AGE	Spearman correlation test	N=16	older	N=8	younger	N=8
GENDER	t test	N=0	 	 	 	 
HISTOLOGICAL TYPE	ANOVA test	N=17	 	 	 	 
RADIATIONS RADIATION REGIMENINDICATION	t test	N=7	yes	N=6	no	N=1
RADIATIONEXPOSURE	t test	N=0	 	 	 	 
DISTANT METASTASIS	ANOVA test	N=1	 	 	 	 
EXTRATHYROIDAL EXTENSION	ANOVA test	N=4	 	 	 	 
LYMPH NODE METASTASIS	ANOVA test	N=9	 	 	 	 
COMPLETENESS OF RESECTION	ANOVA test	N=1	 	 	 	 
NUMBER OF LYMPH NODES	Spearman correlation test	N=8	higher number.of.lymph.nodes	N=6	lower number.of.lymph.nodes	N=2
NEOPLASM DISEASESTAGE	ANOVA test	N=5	 	 	 	 
MULTIFOCALITY	t test	N=1	unifocal	N=0	multifocal	N=1
TUMOR SIZE	Spearman correlation test	N=0	 	 	 	 
