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. 2022 Jul 16;23(14):7839. doi: 10.3390/ijms23147839
TME Tumor microenvironment
ICI Immune checkpoint inhibitors
CTLA-4 Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Antigen 4
PD1 Programmed cell Death 1
PD-L1 PD1 Ligand 1
ECM Extracellular Matrix
US FDA United States Food and Drug Administration
NSCLC Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
MHC Major Histocompatibility Complex
Mut/Mb Mutations per coding genomic region analyzed
TMB Tumor Mutational Burden
TMB-H High Tumor Mutational Burden
TCGA The Cancer Genome Atlas
WES Whole Exome Sequencing
NGS Next-Generation-Sequencing
F1CDx FoundationOne CDx
MSK-IMPACT Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Integrated Mutation Profiling of Actionable Cancer Targets
FoundationACT Assay for Circulation Tumor DNA
MSI Microsatellite Instability
dMMR Defective DNA mismatch repair
MSI-H High MSI
GEP Gene Expression Profiling
cDNA Complementary DNA
RNA-seq RNA Sequencing
DGE Differential Gene Expression
GSEA Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
WGCNA Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis
TIS Tumor Inflammation Signature
FFPE Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded
mRNA Messenger RNA
scRNA-seq Single Cell RNA-seq
DEPArray Di-Electro-Phoretic Array
STTs Spatial Transcriptomic Technologies
DSP Digital Spatial Profiling
ROI Regions of Interest
STEREO-seq SpaTial Enhanced REsolution Omics-sequencing
DNB DNA nanoball
PDAC Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
CSCC Cervical Squamous Cell Carcinoma
CAFs Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts
HPV Human Papillomavirus
TGF-β Transforming Growth Factor β