| AR | Androgen receptor |
| BPH | Benign prostatic hyperplasia |
| COUP-TF | Chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter transcription factor |
| CRPC | Castration-resistant prostate cancer |
| DAX1 | Dosage-sensitive sex reversal-adrenal hypoplasia congenital critical region on the X chromosome, Gene 1 |
| ER | Estrogen receptor |
| ERR | Estrogen-related receptor |
| FXR | Farnesoid X receptor |
| GCNF | Germ cell nuclear factor |
| GR | Glucocorticoid receptor |
| LRH-1 | Liver receptor homolog-1 |
| LXR | Liver X receptor |
| MR | Mineralocorticoid receptor |
| NR | Nuclear receptor |
| PIN | Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia |
| PPAR | Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor |
| PR | Progesterone receptor |
| RAR | Retinoic acid receptor |
| REV-ERB | Reverse-Erb receptor |
| ROR | Retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor |
| RXR | Retinoid X receptor |
| SF-1 | Steroidogenic factor-1 |
| SHP | Small heterodimer partner |
| SR | Steroid receptor |
| TR | Testicular orphan nuclear receptor |
| VDR | Vitamin D receptor |