PTCSC3 and thyroid gland carcinoma: In thyroid carcinoma, several papillary thyroid carcinoma susceptibility candidates, such as PTCSC2, contain a risk-variant rs965513, and PTCSC3 encompasses rs944289; two lincRNA expression levels are strongly down-regulated in thyroid carcinoma tissues (Jendrzejewski et al., 2012; He et al., 2015).