| BRCA1 | Breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein |
| BSA | Bovine Serum Albumin |
| β-TRCP | Beta-Transducin Repeat-Containing Protein |
| C2H2 | Cystein2-Histidine2 |
| CRC | Colorectal Cancer |
| CRISPR | Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |
| DAPI | 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole |
| DDR | DNA Damage Repair |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid |
| dH2O | Distilled Water |
| dsRNA | Double stranded RNA |
| DSB | Double-strand breaks |
| Drosha | Double-stranded RNA-specific ribonuclease (RNase) III |
| FLYWCH1 | FLYWCH-type zinc finger 1 |
| GFP | Green Fluorescent Protein |
| gRNA | Guide RNA |
| H2AX | Histone H2A variant |
| HDAC | Histone Deacetylases |
| HP1a | Heterochromatin protein 1 isoform a |
| HP1BP3 | Heterochromatin protein 1 binding protein 3 |
| HR | Homologous recombination |
| MMR | Mismatch repair |
| MSI | Microsatellite Instability |
| MSS | Microsatellite Stability |
| NER | Nucleotide excision repair |
| NHEJ | Non-homologous end-joining |
| NLS | Nuclear localization signals |
| ROS | Reactive Oxygen Species |
| UV | Ultraviolet |