| BLAST | Basic Local Alignment Search Tool |
| BMI | Body Mass Index |
| CAAD | Cancer-Associated Adipocytes |
| CXCL-2 | C-X-C Motif Chemokine Ligand 2 |
| CXCL-3 | C-X-C Motif Chemokine Ligand 3 |
| CCL2 | C-C Motif Chemokine Ligand 2 |
| CXCL-8 | Interleukin-8 |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| GAPDH | Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase |
| gnomAD | Genome Aggregation Database |
| GRCh38 | Genome Reference Consortium Human Build 38 |
| IL-6 | Interleukin 6 |
| IL-6R | Interleukin-6 Receptor |
| IL-6ST | Interleukin-6 Signal Transducer |
| IL-12 | Interleukin-12 |
| IL1-β | Interleukin-1 beta |
| IL-1Ra | Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| NGS | Next-Generation Sequencing |
| OSM | Oncostatin-M |
| SNV | Single-Nucleotide Variant |
| STRING | Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins |
| T2DM | Type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| TLR’s | Toll-Like Receptors |
| TNF-α | Tumor Necrosis Factor-A |
| WHO | World Health Organization |