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. 2023 Feb 21;12(5):685. doi: 10.3390/cells12050685

Table 1.

TCGA study names. Table of the diseases studied in the TCGA project, including disease abbreviations and full disease names. Tissues studied in the GTEx project that directly correlate with TCGA disease locations are also shown.

TCGA Cancer Types
ABBV Full Disease Name GTEx Tissues
ACC Adrenocortical carcinoma Adrenal gland
BLCA Bladder urothelial carcinoma Bladder
BRCA Breast invasive carcinoma Breast
CESC Cervical squamous cell carcinoma and endocervical carcinoma Cervix uteri
CHOL Cholangiocarcinoma
COAD Colon adenocarcinoma Colon
DLBC Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
ESCA Esophageal carcinoma Esophagus
GBM Glioblastoma multiforme Brain
HNSC Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma Salivary gland
KICH Kidney chromophobe Kidney
KIRC Kidney renal clear cell carcinoma Kidney
KIRP Kidney renal papillary cell carcinoma Kidney
LAML Acute myeloid leukemia Bone marrow
LGG Brain lower glade glioma Brain
LIHC Liver hepatocellular carcinoma Liver
LUAD Lung adenocarcinoma Lung
LUSC Lung squamous cell carcinoma Lung
MESO Mesothelioma
OV Ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma Ovary
PAAD Pancreatic adenocarcinoma Pancreas
PCPG Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma Nerve
PRAD Prostate adenocarcinoma Prostate
READ Rectum adenocarcinoma
SARC Sarcoma
SKCM Skin cutaneous melanoma Skin
STAD Stomach adenocarcinoma Stomach
TGCT Testicular germ cell tumors
THCA Thyroid carcinoma
THYM Thymoma
UCEC Uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma Uterus
UCS Uterine carcinosarcoma Uterus
UVM Uveal melanoma