One functional lincRNA (MIAT) was first identified during the experimental interrogation of an intergenic TAS [35], and another lincRNA PTCSC3, was identified nearby a TAS found from a papillary thyroid carcinoma GWAS, perhaps representing the first of many such discoveries to come from intergenic TASs. Here, PTCSC3 is linked to thyroid gland papillary carcinoma.