| HERV-K | Human endogenous retrovirus K |
| HiFi | Highly accurate circular consensus reads |
| IL | Illumina |
| L1 | Long interspersed nuclear element-1 |
| ONT | Oxford Nanopore Technologies |
| ORF | Open reading frame |
| PB | Pacific Biosciences |
| RNP | Ribonucleoprotein |
| SMRT | Single-molecule real-time |
| SV | Structural variants |
| SVA | SINE-VNTR-Alu |
| TAD | Topologically associating domain |
| TGS | Third-generation sequencing |
| TE | Transposable element |
| TPRT | Target-primed reverse transcription |
| TSD | Target site duplication |
| UMI | Unique molecular identifiers |
| UTR | Untranslated region |
| VNTR | Variable number tandem repeat |
| WGS | Whole-genome sequencing |