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=100	older	N=42	younger	N=58
NEOPLASM DISEASESTAGE	ANOVA test	N=669	 	 	 	 
PATHOLOGY T STAGE	Spearman correlation test	N=594	higher stage	N=111	lower stage	N=483
PATHOLOGY N STAGE	t test	N=2518	class1	N=1226	class0	N=1292
PATHOLOGY M STAGE	ANOVA test	N=16	 	 	 	 
GENDER	t test	N=43	male	N=19	female	N=24
HISTOLOGICAL TYPE	ANOVA test	N=5511	 	 	 	 
RADIATIONS RADIATION REGIMENINDICATION	t test	N=28	yes	N=18	no	N=10
RADIATIONEXPOSURE	t test	N=6	yes	N=3	no	N=3
EXTRATHYROIDAL EXTENSION	ANOVA test	N=1040	 	 	 	 
COMPLETENESS OF RESECTION	ANOVA test	N=2	 	 	 	 
NUMBER OF LYMPH NODES	Spearman correlation test	N=1339	higher number.of.lymph.nodes	N=744	lower number.of.lymph.nodes	N=595
MULTIFOCALITY	t test	N=0	 	 	 	 
TUMOR SIZE	Spearman correlation test	N=11	higher tumor.size	N=0	lower tumor.size	N=11
