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=377	older	N=376	younger	N=1
NEOPLASM DISEASESTAGE	ANOVA test	N=415	 	 	 	 
PATHOLOGY T STAGE	Spearman correlation test	N=157	higher stage	N=75	lower stage	N=82
PATHOLOGY N STAGE	t test	N=1316	class1	N=138	class0	N=1178
PATHOLOGY M STAGE	ANOVA test	N=22	 	 	 	 
GENDER	t test	N=28	male	N=15	female	N=13
HISTOLOGICAL TYPE	ANOVA test	N=2248	 	 	 	 
RADIATIONS RADIATION REGIMENINDICATION	t test	N=49	yes	N=25	no	N=24
RADIATIONEXPOSURE	t test	N=52	yes	N=23	no	N=29
EXTRATHYROIDAL EXTENSION	ANOVA test	N=352	 	 	 	 
COMPLETENESS OF RESECTION	ANOVA test	N=14	 	 	 	 
NUMBER OF LYMPH NODES	Spearman correlation test	N=1047	higher number.of.lymph.nodes	N=24	lower number.of.lymph.nodes	N=1023
MULTIFOCALITY	t test	N=0	 	 	 	 
TUMOR SIZE	Spearman correlation test	N=0	 	 	 	 
