| ChIP | Chromatin immunoprecipitation |
| DEG | Differentially expressed gene |
| ENCODE | Encyclopedia of DNA Elements |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| FFPE | Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| GSEA | Gene set enrichment analysis |
| IGV | Integrative Genomics Viewer |
| IHC | Immunohistochemistry |
| MCC | Merkel cell carcinoma |
| MCPyV | Merkel cell polyomavirus |
| MCV | Merkel cell polyomavirus |
| NES | Normalized enrichment score |
| TMA | Tissue microarray |
| VP-MCC | Virus-positive Merkel cell carcinoma |
| VN-MCC | Virus-negative Merkel cell carcinoma |