| CRC | Colorectal cancer |
| CRCSC | Colorectal Cancer Subtyping Consortium |
| CMS | Consensus molecular subtypes |
| GEO | Gene Expression Omnibus |
| COCC | Clinical Genomic Study of Colorectal Cancer in China |
| ICGC-ARGO | International Cancer Genome Consortium to Accelerate Research in Genomic Oncology |
| DICOM | Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine |
| GSEA | Gene set enrichment analysis |
| ssGSEA | single-sample gene set enrichment analysis |
| TIGER | Tumor Immunotherapy Gene Expression Resource |
| UMAP | Uniform manifold approximation and projection |
| RS | Risk score |
| DFS | Disease-free survival |
| EMT | Epithelial–mesenchymal transition |