LINC01816 promotes the migration, invasion and epithelial-mesenchymal transition of thyroid carcinoma cells by sponging miR-34c-5p and regulating CRABP2 expression levels

Abstract Thyroid carcinoma (THCA) is a common type of endocrine system cancer and its current clinical treatment method is surgical resection. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been revealed to serve important roles in a variety of complex human diseases. Therefore, determining the association between lncRNAs and diseases may provide novel insight into disease-related lncRNAs, with the aim of improving disease treatments and diagnoses. Long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 1816 (LINC01816) was identified to be associated with the survival of patients