Fig. 6

MET expression in tissue samples and its correlation with XIST and miR-34a (a) MET mRNA expression in 512 thyroid cancer and 337 non-tumor tissues based on TCGA-THCA database. b MET mRNA expression in 77 paired thyroid cancer and non-tumor tissue samples was determined using real-time PCR assays. The data are presented as mean ± SD of three independent experiments. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01. c The protein levels of MET in three paired randomly selected thyroid cancer and non-tumor tissues were determined using Immunoblotting assays. d-e The correlation between XIST and MET, between miR-34a and MET was analyzed using Spearman’s rank correlation analysis