| AJCC | American Joint Committee on Cancer |
| TCGA | The Cancer Genome Atlas |
| ICGC | International Cancer Genome Consortium |
| KIRC | Kidney Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma |
| RECA | Renal Cell Cancer |
| ccRCC | clear cell Renal cell carcinoma |
| mRMR | Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance |
| AUC | Area Under the Curve |
| ROC | Receiving Operator Characteristics |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| RFE | Recursive Feature Elimination |
| GBM | Generalized Boosted Regression Model |
| Rpart | Recursive Partitioning and Regression Trees |
| XGBoost | eXtreme Gradient Boosting |
| CoxPH | Cox proportional hazards regression model |