| BFP | Blue Fluorescent Protein |
| CMV | Cytomegalovirus |
| CN | Negative Control |
| CSCs | Cancer Stem Cells |
| EMT | Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition |
| ES | Enrichment Score |
| FACS | Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting |
| FBS | Fetal Bovine Serum |
| FDR | False Discovery Rate |
| GFP | Green Fluorescent Protein |
| GSEA | Gene set enrichment analysis |
| HR | Hazard Ratio |
| OCT4 | Octamer-binding transcription factor 4 |
| OS | Overall Survival |
| PBM | Pancreaticobiliary maljunction |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| PDAC | Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma |
| qPCR | quantitative real-time PCR |
| RFS | Relapse-Free Survival |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| SOX2 | Sex-determining region Y (SRY)-Box2 |
| TCGA | The Cancer Genome Atlas |
| TERT | Telomerase reverse transcriptase |