Table 1 Characteristics of circRNA researchs in thyroid cancer.

From: Emerging roles of circular RNAs in regulating the hallmarks of thyroid cancer

Characteristics

Item

Number

Research articles

 

100

Pathology

PTC

85

 

PDTC/ATC

2

 

Unclear

13

Relative exp by III-IV/I-II stage

Higher

38

 

lower

4

 

Unclear

58

CircRNA

 

71

Expression

 

Up-regulated

66

 

Down-regulated

5

Type

 

EciRNA

66

 

CiRNA

4

 

ElciENA

1

 

Antisense circRNA

0

 

Intergenic circRNA

0

Mechanisms

 

Sponge miRNA

67

 

RNA-binding proteins

1

 

Unclear

3

Target gene

 

66

Signal pathway

 

PI3K/AKT

9

 

MAPK

6

 

Wnt/β-catenin

4

 

mTOR

2

 

AMPK

2

 

Hippo

1

 

Notch

1

Hallmarks

 

Sustaining proliferative signaling

70

 

Evading growth suppressors

46

 

Avoiding immune destruction

0

 

Enabling replicative immortality

0

 

Tumor-promoting inflammation

0

 

Activating invasion and metastasis

63

 

Inducing angiogenesis

7

 

Genome instability andmutation

0

 

Resisting cell death

18

 

Deregulating cellular energetics

9

 

Unlocking phenotypic plasticity

4

 

Non-mutational epigenetic reprogramming

4

 

Polymorphic microbiomes

0

 

Senescent cells

0