| Basal | Basal-like |
| DMEM | Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium |
| EGF | epidermal growth factor |
| EMT | epithelial to mesenchymal transition |
| E-Cad | E-cadherin |
| FBS | fetal bovine serum |
| FLIPR | fluorometric imaging plate reader |
| HER2 | HER2-Enriched |
| LumA | Luminal A |
| LumB | Luminal B |
| MeV | Multiple Experiment Viewer |
| N-Like | Normal-like |
| PAR2 | protease-activated receptor 2 |
| RFS | relapse-free survival |
| RSEM | RNA-seq by expectation maximization |
| RPMI | Roswell Park Memorial Institute |
| TCGA | the Cancer Genome Atlas |
| TGFβ1 | transforming growth factor β1 |
| WGCNA | weighted gene co-expression network analysis |