Besides these benign lesions, thyroid entities such as non-invasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features (NIFTP), invasive encapsulated follicular variants of papillary thyroid cancer (IEFVPTC), PTC, and FTC are also associated with germline and somatic DICER1 mutations (3, 4). The gene discussed is DICER1; the disease is thyroid gland papillary carcinoma.