| ASY | Aberrant six-year samples |
| DEGs | Differentially expressed genes |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| FPKM | Kilobase of transcript per million fragments mapped |
| FY | Four-year samples |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| HCA | Hierarchical cluster analysis |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| Nr | NCBI non-redundant protein sequences |
| OPLS-DA | Orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| SY | Six-year samples |
| TFs | Transcription factors |
| UPLC–ESI–MS/MS | Ultra-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry |
| VIP | Variable importance in projection |