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WGCNA and differential analysis were applied to identify LNM-related differentially expressed genes in PTC patients. We developed a risk score based on the 3-gene signature predicting LNM using the LASSO regression analysis. Furthermore, multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to establish a nomogram. We evaluated the discriminative ability of the nomogram by calculating the area under the ROC curve. Besides, we applied the decision curve analyses and calibration curve to assess the nomogram's actual benefits and accuracy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Significant predictors of LNM in PTC patients were eventually screened to develop a nomogram, which included age, histological type, focus type, T stage, and risk score calculated based on IQGAP2, BTBD11 and MT1G expression levels. The AUC value of the nomogram for training and validation set was 0.802 (95% CI 0.750\u20130.855) and 0.718 (95% CI 0.624\u20130.811). Moreover, the nomogram has outstanding calibration and actual clinical patient benefits.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We identified a nomogram based on the 3-gene signature and clinical characteristics that effectively predicted LNM in PTC patients, which offers guidance for the preoperative assessment the appropriate scope of operation in PTC patients.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/18758592241311195","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,2]],"date-time":"2025-04-02T08:23:25Z","timestamp":1743582205000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["A nomogram based on the 3-gene signature and clinical characteristics for predicting lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"42","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3821-9652","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yan","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Suining Central Hospital, Suining, People's Republic of China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Da-Song","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Suining Central Hospital, Suining, People's Republic of China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lei","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Suining Central Hospital, Suining, People's Republic of China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yun-Hui","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Suining Central Hospital, Suining, People's Republic of China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yu","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Suining Central Hospital, Suining, People's Republic of China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mao-Shan","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Suining Central Hospital, Suining, People's Republic of China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zheng-Yan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Suining Central Hospital, Suining, People's Republic of China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Li","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Suining Central Hospital, Suining, People's Republic of China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hong-Wei","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Suining Central Hospital, Suining, People's Republic of China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3322\/caac.21763"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_3_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11","DOI":"10.1016\/S2213-8587(20)30372-7","article-title":"Thyroid cancer in the USA: current trends and outstanding questions","volume":"9","author":"Davies L","year":"2021","unstructured":"Davies L, Hoang JK. 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