| B6 | C57BL/6J |
| BP | Biological Processes |
| CC | Cellular components |
| CESA | Comitato Etico per la Sperimentazione Animale |
| Chst2 | Carbohydrate sulfotransferase 2 |
| CPM | Counts per millions |
| DE | Definitive endoderm |
| DPB | Dorsal pancreatic bud |
| Dsp | Desmoplakin |
| E10.5 | Embryonic day 10.5 |
| ESCs | Embryonic stem cells |
| EST | Expressed Sequence Tag |
| FDR | False Discovery Rate |
| Frem2 | Fras1-related extracellular matrix protein 2 |
| GO | Gene ontology |
| IHC | Immunohistochemistry |
| ISH | In situ hybridization |
| iPSCs | Induced pluripotent stem cells |
| LCM | Laser capture microdissection |
| MeDBP | DPB mesenchyme |
| mESCs | Mouse embryonic stem cells |
| MO | Molecular functions |
| PBS-DEPC | DEPC-treated phosphate-buffered saline |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| PCSK9 | Proproteinconvertasesubtilisin/kexin type 9 |
| PFE | Posterior foregut endoderm |
| PPCs | Pancreatic progenitor cells |
| RA | Retinoic acid |
| RIN | RNA integrity numbers |
| RNAseq | RNA high-throughput sequencing |
| Sdc4 | Syndecan 4 |
| Tnc | Tenascin C |
| Vcan | Versican |
| Wnk3 | WNK lysine-deficient protein kinase 3 |
| Zim1 | Zinc finger, imprinted 1 |