| ANS | Autonomic nervous system |
| BMP | Bone morphogenetic protein |
| CHIR | CHIR99021 |
| DEG | Differentially expressed gene |
| DM | Dorsomorphin |
| EB | Embryoid body |
| ESC | Embryonic stem cell |
| FPKM | Fragments per kilobase of exon per million mapped sequence reads |
| GO_BP | Gene ontology biological process |
| GRN | Gene regulatory network |
| GSEA | Gene set enrichment analysis |
| iPSC | induced pluripotent stem cells |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| KSR | Knockout serum replacement |
| lncRNA | long non-coding RNA |
| MCODE | Molecular complex detection |
| MEA | Microelectrode array |
| MPC | 2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine |
| miRNA | microRNA |
| NC | Neural crest |
| nAchR | nicotinic acetylcholine receptor |
| PPI | Protein–protein interaction |
| PSC | Pluripotent stem cell |
| RNA-seq | RNA-sequencing |
| SB | SB431542 |
| SHH | Sonic hedgehog |
| STRING | Search tool for the retrieval of interacting genes |
| TF | Transcription factor |