RCC	renal cell carcinoma
ccRCC	clear-cell RCC
pRCC	papillary RCC
chRCC	chromophobe RCC
VHL	von-Hippel-Lindau
HIF	hypoxic-inducible factor
PBRM1	protein polybromo 1
BAP1	BRCA1 associated protein-1
SETD2	SET domain containing 2
CSS	cancer-specific survival
HLRCC	hereditary papillary RCC and as hereditary leiomyomatosis and RCC
MET	met proto-oncogene
CDKN2A	cyclin-dependent kinase Inhibitor 2A
TFE3	transcription factor E3
NRF2	nuclear factor-like 2
TP53	tumour protein p53
PTEN	phosphatase and tensin homolog
VEGF	vascular endothelial growth factor
mTOR	mammalian target of rapamycin
PD1	programmed cell death protein 1
OS	overall survival
PDGF	platelet derived growth factor
lncRNAs	long non-coding RNAs
XIST	RNA gene on the X chromosome
HOTAIR	HOX antisense intergenic RNA
H19	H19 gene
TERRA	telomeric repeat-containing RNA
MALAT1	metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1
PTENP1	phosphatase and tensin homolog pseudogene 1
PCR	polymerase chain reaction
MITF/TFE	microphthalmia-associated transcription factor
TCGA	the Cancer Genome Atlas
TNM	tumour, node, metastasis classification system
EZH2	enhancer of zeste homolog 2
PRC2	polycomb repressive complex 2
siRNA	small interfering RNA
mRNA	messenger RNA
NEAT2	nuclear-enriched abundant transcript 2
EMT	epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition
TCF/LEF	T-cell factor/lymphoid enhancer factor transcription factors
ceRNA	competing endogenous RNA
ZEB2	zinc finger E-box-binding homeobox 2
HIF	hypoxic inducible factor
GAS5	growth arrest specific 5
cIAP2	Baculoviral IAP repeat-containing protein 3
CDK6	cell division protein kinase 6
pcDNA	DNA vector used to clone recombinant DNA sequences
MEG3	maternally expressed gene 3
BCL2	B-cell lymphoma 2
SPRY4-IT1	protein sprouty homolog 4 intronic transcript 1
MAPK	mitogen-activated protein kinase
CADM1-AS1	Cell adhesion molecule 1 anti-sense transcript 1
RCCRT1	renal cell carcinoma related transcript 1
NBAT1	neuroblastoma associated transcript 1
Neat1	nuclear-enriched abundant transcript 1
Fendrr	Foxf1 adjacent non-coding developmental regulatory RNA