| AI | Aromatase Inhibitor |
| AKT | Ak strain Transforming gene |
| ANRIL | Antisense Non-coding RNA in the INK4 Locus |
| ASOs | Antisense Oligonucleotides |
| BC | Breast Cancer |
| BrCSCs | Breast Cancer Stem-like Cells |
| c-MET | Mesenchymal Epithelial Transition cellular oncogene |
| CBP | cAMP-regulated-enhancer (CRE)-binding protein (CREB)-Binding Protein |
| CDK2 | Cyclin-dependent Kinase 2 |
| CDK4-6 | Cyclin-dependent Kinase 4-6 |
| ceRNA | Competing endogenous RNA |
| ChIP-Seq | Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Sequencing |
| ChIRP | Chromatin Isolation by RNA Purification |
| CLIP | Cross-Linking Immunoprecipitation |
| CRISPR/Cas9 | Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats-CRISPR associated protein 9 |
| DES | Diethylstilbestrol |
| DO-RIP-seq | Digestion-Optimized RNA Immunoprecipitation cDNA library sequencing |
| DSCAM-AS1 | Down Syndrome Cell Adhesion Molecule antisense1 |
| DUSP7 | Dual Specificity Phosphatase 7 |
| E2F1 | E2F transcription factor 1 |
| EED | Embryonic Ectoderm Development |
| EFEMP1 | EGF-containing fibulin-like extracellular matrix protein 1 |
| EGR1 | Early Growth Response 1 |
| EMSA | Electrophoretic mobility shift assay |
| EMT | Epithelial-mesenchymal transition |
| EREs | Estrogen Response Element |
| ERINA | Estrogen inducible lncRNA |
| ERK | Extracellular signal-Regulated Kinase |
| eRNAs | Enhancer RNAs |
| ERα | Estrogen Receptor α |
| ERα+ | Estrogen Receptor α positive |
| ESR1 | Estrogen Receptor 1 |
| ET | Endocrine Therapy |
| ETR | Endocrine Therapy Resistance |
| EZH2 | Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 |
| FOXO3 | Forkhead Box O3 |
| GRO-Seq | Global Run-On sequencing |
| GTI-seq | Global Translation Initiation sequencing |
| H3K27Ac | Histone 3 lysine 27 acetylation |
| H3K4 | Histone H3 lysine K4 |
| HB | Histidine-Biotin |
| HBD | Hormone Binding Domain |
| HDAC | Histone Deacetylase |
| HER2 | Human Epidermal growth factor Receptor 2 |
| HGF | Hepatocyte Growth Factor |
| hnRNPL | Heterogeneous nuclear Ribonucleoprotein L |
| HOTAIR | HOX Transcript Antisense RNA |
| ICI | Fulvestrant, ICI 182,780 |
| KDM2A | Lysine demethylase 2A |
| linc-ROR | Long Intergenic Non-Protein Coding RNA, Regulator Of Reprogramming |
| LINC00472 | Long Intergenic Non-Protein Coding RNA 472 |
| LINC01016 | Long Intergenic Non-Protein Coding RNA 1016 |
| LMTK3 | Lemur Tyrosine Kinase 3 |
| LNA | Locked nucleic acid-modified oligonucleotides |
| lncRNA H19 | Long non-coding RNA H19 |
| lncRNA ROR | Long non-coding RNA Regulator Of Reprogramming |
| lncRNAs | Long non-coding RNAs |
| LPI | LncRNA-Protein iInteraction |
| LSD1 | Lysine-Specific Demethylase 1 |
| MAFG-AS1 | MAF BZIP Transcription Factor G -AS1 |
| MAPK | Mitogen-activated protein kinase |
| MEK | Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase |
| MIAT | Myocardial Infarction-Associated Transcript |
| miR-155-5p | microRNA-155-5p |
| miR-339-5p | microRNA-339-5p |
| MIR2052HG | MIR2052 Host Gene |
| MLL1 | Mixed Lineage Leukemiaprotein-1 |
| MLL3 | Mixed Lineage Leukemiaprotein-3 |
| MLLs | Mixed Lineage Leukemias |
| mRNA | messenger RNA |
| mTOR | Mammalian Target Of Rapamycin |
| ncRNAs | Non-coding RNAs |
| NGS | Next-generation sequencing |
| NMR | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
| ORF | Open Reading Frame |
| PI3K | Phosphatidylinositol-3 Kinase |
| PKC | Protein Kinase C |
| PR | Progesterone Receptor |
| PRC2 | Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 |
| PTM | Post-Translational Modification |
| qPCR | Quantitative PCR |
| R3C | RNA chromosome conformation capture |
| RB1 | Retinoblastoma protein 1 |
| RNA Pol II | RNA Polymerase II |
| RNA-FISH | RNA-Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization |
| RNA-Seq | RNA Sequencing |
| RSK1 | Ribosomal S6 Kinase 1 |
| SAS | Small-angle Scattering |
| SERDs | Selective Estrogen Receptor Down-regulators |
| SERMs | Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators |
| shRNAs | Short hairpin RNAs |
| siRNAs | Small interfering RNAs |
| sncRNAs | Small non-coding RNAs |
| STORM | Stochastic Optical Reconstruction mMicroscopy |
| SUZ12 | Suppressor of Zeste 12 homolog |
| TDG | Thymine DNA glycosylase |
| TM4SF1 | Transmembrane-4 L-six family member-1 |
| TMPO | Thymopoietin |
| TMPO-AS1 | TMPO antisense RNA1 |
| TRIBE | Targets of RNA-binding proteins Identified By Editing |
| UCA1 | Urothelial Carcinoma-Associated protein1 |
| XIST | X-Inactive Specific Transcript |
| ZEB1 | Zinc Finger E-Box Binding Homeobox 1 |
| ZEB2 | Zinc Finger E-Box Binding Homeobox 2 |