PTCSC3 and differentiated thyroid carcinoma: This SNP rs944289 was also found to predispose to PTC through a long intergenic noncoding RNA gene (lincRNA) named papillary thyroid carcinoma susceptibility candidate 3 (PTCSC3) located 3.2 kb downstream of rs944289 at 14q13.3 that has the characteristics of a tumor suppressor (47).