| DCIS | Breast ductal carcinoma in situ |
| MR | Mendelian randomization |
| GEO | Gene Expression Omnibus |
| DEGs | Differentially expressed genes |
| SNPs | Single-nucleotide polymorphisms |
| eQTL | Expression quantitative trait locus |
| GWAS | Genome-Wide association study database |
| GO | Gene ontology analysis |
| KEGG | Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes analysis |
| CIBERSORT | Cell-type identification by estimating relative subsets of RNA transcripts |
| TME | Immune-related tumor microenvironment |
| IDC | Invasive ductal cancer |
| IVs | Instrumental variables |
| LD | Linkage disequilibrium |
| WIV | Weak instrumental variable |
| MRE | MR egger |
| WM | Weighted median |
| IVM | Inverse variance weighted |
| SM | Simple mode |
| OR | Odds Ratio |
| GSEA | Gene Set Enrichment Analysis |
| NES | Normalized enrichment score |
| NOM | Nominal |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| HPA | Human Protein Atlas |
| siRNAs | Small interfering RNAs |
| qRT-PCR | Quantitative real-time PCR |
| BP | Biological process |
| CC | Cellular component |
| MF | Molecular function |
| TSG | Tumor suppressor gene |
| IBC | Invasive breast cancer |