| CIN | cervical intraepithelial neoplasia |
| LEfSe | Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) effect size |
| COG | Cluster of Orthologous Groups |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| PCoA | principal coordinates analysis |
| PERMANOVA | Permutational multivariate analysis of variance |
| Kos | KEGG orthologies |
| LLETZ | Large Loop Excision of the Transformation Zone |