| PCa | Prostate Cancer |
| AA | African American |
| EA | European American |
| RNA | Ribonucleic Acid |
| RNA-Seq | Ribonucleic Acid Sequencing |
| RT-qPCR | Real-Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| IPA | Ingenuity Pathway Analysis |
| FDR | False Discover Rate |
| EMT | Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition |
| RhoA | Ras Homology Family Member A |
| DEG | Differentially Expressed Gene |
| VDRE | Vitamin D Response Element |
| TCGA | The Cancer Genome Atlas |
| PRAD | Prostate Adenocarcinoma |
| ANLN | Anillin |
| ECT2 | Epithelial Cell Transforming 2 |
| 1α,25(OH)2D3 | Calcitriol or 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 |
| PSA | Prostate-Specific Antigen |
| UV | Ultraviolet |
| 25 hydroxyvitamin D3 | Calcidiol |
| c-MYC | Cellular Myelocytomatosis Oncogene |
| G0/G1 phase | Growth 0/Growth 1 phase |
| ECM | Extracellular Matrix |
| TME | Tumor Microenvironment |
| AIM | Ancestral Informative Marker |
| WA | West African |
| NA | Native American |
| WAA | West African Ancestry |
| SNP | Single Nucleotide Polymorphism |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| CHIP | Chromatin Immunoprecipitation |
| MALDI-TOF | Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time of Flight |
| ATCC | American Type Culture Collection |
| OD | Optical Density |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| cDNA | Complimentary DNA |
| GAPDH | Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase |
| GEO | Gene Expression Omnibus |
| JUN | Jun Proto-oncogene AP-1 transcription factor subunit |
| JUNB | JunB Proto-oncogene AP-1 transcription factor subunit |
| EGFR | Epithelial Growth Factor Receptor) |
| EGR | Early Growth Response |
| FOXM1 | Forkhead box protein M1 |
| IL17A | Interleukin 17A |
| IL1A | Interleukin1A |
| IL1B | Interleukin 1B |
| TNF | Tumor Necrosis Factor |
| ARP-WASP | Actin-related Protein Wiskott–Aldrich Syndrome Protein |
| CKAP4 | Cytoskeleton-Associated Protein 4 |
| DIAPH3 | Diaphanous-Related Formin 3 |
| FGF5 | Fibroblast Growth Factor 5 |
| ITGB6 | Integrin Subunit Beta 6 |
| PDGFC | Platelet-Derived Growth Factor |
| TGFBR2 | Transforming Growth Factor Beta Receptor 2 |
| JAG1 | Jagged Canonical Notch Ligand 1 |
| NOTCH2 | Neurogenic Locus Notch Homolog Protein 2 |
| PDZD2 | PDZ Domain Containing 2 |
| MYO1E | Myosin-1E |
| WDR36 | WD Repeat Domain 36 |
| STAG3 | Stromal Antigen 3 |
| NF-kB | Nuclear Factor-Kappa B |
| IGFBP-3 | Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3 |
| FAS | Fas Cell Surface Death Receptor |
| Wee1 | Wee1 G2 Checkpoint Kinase |
| G1/S phase | Growth 1/Synthesis Phase |
| G2/M phase | Growth 2/Mitosis Phase |
| CIN | Chromosome Instability |
| JAG1 | Jagged 1 |
| VDR | Vitamin D Receptor |