| alt-EJ | Alternative end joining |
| AML | Acute myeloid leukemia |
| ALL | Acute lymphoblastic leukemia |
| Cas9 | CRISPR-associated Protein 9 |
| CIN | Chromosome instability |
| CNevents | Copy number events |
| CNs | Copy numbers |
| CNV | Copy number variants |
| CRISPR | Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |
| DSBs | Double-strand breaks |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid |
| FAB | French–American–British |
| FISH | Fluorescence in situ hybridization |
| FoSTeS | Fork stalling and template switching |
| guideRNA | Guide ribonucleic acid |
| IDT | Integrated DNA Technologies |
| IGV | Integrative Genomics Viewer |
| LINE | Long interspersed nuclear elements |
| MDS | Myelodysplastic syndrome |
| MMBIR | Microhomology-mediated break-induced relocation |
| MPseq | Mate pair sequencing |
| NGS | Next-generation sequencing |
| NHEJ | Non-homologous end joining |
| PCR | Polymerase chain reaction |
| RNA | Ribonucleic acid |
| SOB | Shortness of breath |
| SNP | Single-nucleotide polymorphism |
| SHH-MB | Sonic Hedgehog-induced medulloblastoma |
| SVs | Structural variants |
| UCSC | University of California Santa Cruz |
| VIA | Variant Intelligence Applications™ |
| WGS | Whole-genome sequencing |