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=86	older	N=37	younger	N=49
NEOPLASM DISEASESTAGE	ANOVA test	N=660	 	 	 	 
PATHOLOGY T STAGE	Spearman correlation test	N=524	higher stage	N=108	lower stage	N=416
PATHOLOGY N STAGE	t test	N=2604	class1	N=1242	class0	N=1362
PATHOLOGY M STAGE	ANOVA test	N=10	 	 	 	 
GENDER	t test	N=44	male	N=20	female	N=24
HISTOLOGICAL TYPE	ANOVA test	N=5461	 	 	 	 
RADIATIONS RADIATION REGIMENINDICATION	t test	N=28	yes	N=16	no	N=12
RADIATIONEXPOSURE	t test	N=6	yes	N=3	no	N=3
EXTRATHYROIDAL EXTENSION	ANOVA test	N=1053	 	 	 	 
COMPLETENESS OF RESECTION	ANOVA test	N=2	 	 	 	 
NUMBER OF LYMPH NODES	Spearman correlation test	N=1349	higher number.of.lymph.nodes	N=725	lower number.of.lymph.nodes	N=624
MULTIFOCALITY	t test	N=0	 	 	 	 
TUMOR SIZE	Spearman correlation test	N=9	higher tumor.size	N=0	lower tumor.size	N=9
