KIRC	kidney renal clear cell carcinoma
TME	tumor microenvironment
ICB	immune checkpoint inhibitors
OS	overall survival
RCC	renal cell carcinoma
ROS	reactive oxygen species
CTR-1	copper transporter 1
PD-1	programmed cell death 1
PD-L1	programmed cell death 1 ligand 1
CTLA-4	cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen-4
MAGE-A3	Melanoma antigen family A-3
TCGA	The Cancer Genome Atlas
DEGs	differentially expressed genes
FC	fold change
GSEA	gene set enrichment analysis
NES	normalized enrichment score
GO	Gene Ontology
KEGG	Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
TIP	Tracking Tumor Immunophenotype
ssGSEA	single-sample gene set enrichment analysis
TIS	T cell inflamed score
LASSO	least absolute shrinkage and selection operator
K–M	Kaplan–Meier
ROC	receiver operating characteristic
AUC	area under curve
TILs	tumor infiltrating leukocytes
MCP	microenvironment cell populations
Quantiseq	quantification of the tumor immune contexture from human RNA-seq data
TIMER	tumor immune estimation resource
NK cell	nature killer
Th1 cell	type 1 T helper cell
scRNA-seq	single-cell RNA sequencing
VSM	vascular smooth muscle
m6A	N6-methyladenosine
TNF	tumor necrosis factor
RSF	random survival forest