CCA	Canonical Correlation Analysis
circRNAs	Circular RNAs
dPCR	Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction
ENCODE	Encyclopedia of the regulatory elements
ESTs	Expressed Sequence Tags
GEO	Gene Expression Omnibus
gRNAs	Guide RNAs
GTEx	Genotype-Tissue Expression
ICGC	International Cancer Genome Consortium
lncRNAs	Long ncRNAs
LUAD	Lung adenocarcinoma
LUSC	Lung squamous cell carcinoma
miRNAs	microRNAs
ncRNAs	Non-coding RNAs
NGS	Next Generation Sequencing
PCA	Principal Component Analysis
piRNAs	Piwi-interacting RNAs
PLS	Partial Least Square
qRT-PCR	Quantitative Reverse Transcription PCR
RISC	RNA-induced silencing complex
RNA-Seq	RNA-Sequencing
SAGE	Serial Analysis of Gene Expression
siRNAs	Short interfering RNAs
snoRNAs	Small nucleolar RNAs
snRNAs	Small nuclear RNAs
TCGA	The Cancer Genome Atlas