| bTMB | blood based tumour mutation burden |
| DHPLC | Denaturing High-Performance Liquid Chromatography |
| dMMR | deficient MisMatch Repair |
| EPCAM | EPithelial Cell Adhesion Molecule |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| HRM | High Resolution Melting |
| HSP110 | Heat Shock Protein 110 |
| indels | insertions-deletions |
| LS | Lynch Syndrome |
| MANTIS | Microsatellite Analysis for Normal Tumor InStability |
| MIMMR | Microsatellite Instability Regression using Methylation and Mutations in R |
| MLH1 | MutL Homolog human 1 |
| MMR | mismatch repair |
| MOSAIC | MicrOSAtellite Instability Classifier |
| MS | Microsatellites |
| MSH2 | MutS Homolog human 2 |
| MSH6 | MutS Homolog human 6 |
| MSI | microsatellite instability |
| mSINGS | microSatellite Instability by Next-Generation Sequencing |
| MSS | Microsatellite Stability |
| NaMe-PrO | nuclease-assisted minor-allele enrichment with probe-overlap |
| NGS | Next-Generation Sequencing |
| PMS1 | Postmeiotic Segregation Increased 1 |
| PMS2 | Postmeiotic Segregation Increased 2 |
| preMSIm | Predicting MSI from mRna |