To further investigate the ceRNA network mechanism in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), we used five online bioinformatics databases (Targetscan, miRanda, miRDB, miRWalk and PITA) to select target genes that can compete with ABHD11-AS1 to bind to miR-199a-5p. Here, ABHD11 is linked to thyroid gland papillary carcinoma.