TICs	Tumor-initiating cells
EMT	Epithelial–mesenchymal transition
PCA	Principal component analysis
DEG	Differentially expressed gene
GO	Gene Ontology
KEGG	Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
RNA-seq	RNA sequencing
cDNA	Complementary DNA
mRNA	Messenger RNA
rRNA	Ribosomal RNA
PCR	Polymerase chain reaction
FPKM	Fragments per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads
FC	Fold change
FDR	False discovery rate
AUC	Area under the curve
ncRNA	Non-coding RNA
CV	Coefficient of variation
MAD	Median absolute deviation