APLN	Apelin
AUA	American Urological Association
AUC	Area under the ROC curve
BCL9	B-cell CLL/lymphoma 9
BCR	Biochemical recurrence
BPH	Benign prostatic hyperplasia
CoxM	Multivariate Cox regression analysis
CoxU	Univariate Cox regression analysis
EAU	European Association of Urology
FFPE	Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded
HR	Hazard ratio
ISUP	International Society of Urological Pathology
KMA	Kaplan-Meier analysis
MeSH	Medical Subject Heading of the U.S. National Library of Medicine
miQ	miRNA index quote
MIQE	Minimum information for publication of quantitative real-time PCR experiments
miRNA, miR	microRNA
MW	Mann-Whitney U-test
MYPT1	Protein phosphatase 1 regulatory subunit 12A (official symbol: PPP1R12A)
PCa	Prostate carcinoma
PSA	Prostate-specific antigen
RB1CC1	RB1 inducible coiled-coil 1
REMARK	Reporting Recommendations for Tumor Marker Prognostic Studies
RFS	Biochemical recurrence-free survival
RM	Reference method, in general the reference gene
ROC	Receiver-operating characteristic curve
ROCK1	Rho associated coiled-coil containing protein kinase 1
RP	Radical prostatectomy
RT-qPCR	Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction
SOCS	Cytokine inducible SH2 containing protein (official symbol: CISH)
STARD	Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy
TCGA	The Cancer Genome Atlas
TNM	Classification of malignant tumors describing the involment of the primary tumor, regional lymph nodes and the distant metastatic spread
TRIB1	Tribbles pseudokinase 1