| BCR | B-cell receptor |
| BRCA | Breast invasive carcinoma |
| CAM | Cell adhesion molecule |
| C-indices | Concordance indices |
| CTC | Circulating tumor cell |
| CTC+ | Circulating tumor cell-positive |
| CTC− | Circulating tumor cell-negative |
| DEG | Differentially expressed gene |
| ECM | Extracellular matrix |
| EMT | Epithelial–mesenchymal transition |
| GDSC | Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer |
| HR | Hazard ratio |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| PPI | Protein–protein interaction |
| RNA-seq | RNA sequencing |
| RTK | Receptor tyrosine kinase |
| SRA | Sequence Read Archive |
| t-SEN | t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding |
| TCR | T-cell receptor |
| VST | Variance stabilizing transformation |