Ac	Acetylation
ADEX	Abberantly differentiated endocrine exocrine
ATM	Ataxia telangiectasia mutated
ATR	Ataxia telangiectasia mutated and Rad3 related
BET	Bromodomain and extra-terminal motif
BMP2	Bone morphogenetic protein 2
BRD4	Bromodomain-containing 4
CAF	Cancer-associated fibroblast
CBP	CREB-binding protein
CCL-2	Chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 2
CDH1	Cadherin 1
CDKN2A	Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A
CTC	Circulating tumor cell
CXCL-1	Chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand 1
CXCL-13	Chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand 13
CXCR4	C-X-C motif chemokine receptor 4
DAB2	DAB adaptor protein 2
DNA	Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNMT	DNA methyltransferase
DOT1Li	Histone H3K79 methyltransferase inhibitor
ECM	Extracellular matrix
EGFR	Epidermal growth factor receptor
EHMT2	Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase known as G9A
EMT	Epithelial–mesenchymal transition
EZH2	Enhancer of zeste homolog
FBP1	Fructose-bisphosphatase 1
FOXA1/2	Forkhead box A1/2
HAT	Histone acetyltransferase
HDAC	Histone deacetylase
HDM	Histone demethylase
HKDC1	Hexokinase domain-containing 1
HMT	Histone methyltransferase
H3.3	Histone 3.3
IGF	Insulin-like growth factor
IL	Interleukin
KDM1Ai	Lysine-specific histone demethylase 1A inhibitor
LCN2	Lipocalin-2
MDC1	Mediator of DNA damage checkpoint 1
MDSC	Myeloid-derived suppressor cell
Me	Methylation
MET	Mesenchymal–epithelial transition
miRNA	microRNA
mTOR	Mammalian (or Mechanistic) target of rapamycin
MUC2	Mucin 2
NPTX2	Neuronal pentraxin 2
PanIN	Pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia
PARP	Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase
PCAF	P300/CBP-associated factor
PDAC	Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
PDX	Patient-derived xenograft
PDX1	Pancreatic and duodenal homeobox 1
PENK	Proenkephalin
PI3K	Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase
PRMT	Protein arginine methyltransferase
PSC	Pancreatic stellate cell
RASSF1	Ras association domain family member 1
RB	Retinoblastoma
RNA	Ribonucleic acid
S100P	S100 calcium-binding protein P
SERPINB5	Serpin peptidase inhibitor, clade B, member 5
SFN	Stratifin
SHH	Sonic hedgehog
SPARC	Secreted protein acidic and cysteine rich
SUV39H1	Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase
SWI/SNF	ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complex
TAM	Tumor-associated macrophage
TET	Ten-eleven translocation protein
TFF2	Trefoil factor 2
TGF-β	Transforming growth factor-beta
VEGFA	Vascular endothelial growth factor A