HNSCC	Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
DSG2	Desmoglein-2
CXCL8 (IL-8)	C-X-C Motif Chemokine Ligand 8 (Interleukin-8)
CXCR2	C-X-C Motif Chemokine Receptor 2
TME	Tumor microenvironment
CAF	Cancer-associated fibroblast
myCAF	Myofibroblastic cancer-associated fibroblast
ICI	Immune checkpoint inhibitor
EMT	Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition
MR	Mendelian randomization
IVW	Inverse variance-weighted
LASSO	Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator
TCGA	The Cancer Genome Atlas
CPTAC	Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium
DepMap	Cancer Dependency Map
TF	Transcription factor
TIDE	Tumor Immune Dysfunction and Exclusion
WGCNA	Weighted gene co-expression network analysis
PMN-MDSC	Polymorphonuclear myeloid-derived suppressor cell
TIL	Tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte
CYT	Cytolytic activity score
HPV	Human papillomavirus