TCF19 and thyroid gland carcinoma: To further investigate the expression pattern of TCF19 in human cancers, we first analysed The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database and found that TCF19 mRNA levels were upregulated in most human cancers (meta-analysis, log2FC=0.68, P=2.84x10-13) including thyroid cancer (Supplementary Figure 3 and Figure 1A).