| CRC | Colorectal cancer |
| AACR | American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) |
| GLOBOCAN | The Global Cancer Observatory |
| TCGA | Cancer Genome Atlas |
| ICGC | International Cancer Genome Consortium |
| RNA-Seq | RNA sequencing |
| GDC | Genomics Data Commons |
| SNP | Single-nucleotide polymorphisms |
| INS | Insert |
| DEL | Deletion |
| Indel | Insert and deletion |
| MAF | Mutation Annotation Format |
| N | Number of samples |
| VST | variance stabilizing transformation |
| GLM | Generalized linear model |
| DEGs | Differentially expressed genes |
| Log2FC | Log base 2 fold changes |
| FDR | False discover rate |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| IPA | Ingenuity pathway analysis |
| REF | Reference cited |
| BP | Biological process |
| CC | Cellular component |
| MF | Molecular function |