| AIDS | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| ATI | ART Treatment Interruption |
| BTS2 | Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Antigen 2 |
| cART | combinational Antiretroviral Treatment |
| CDK2 | Cyclin Dependent Kinase 2 |
| EZH2 | Enhancer Of Zeste 2 Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Subunit |
| GAS5 | Growth arrest-specific transcript 5 |
| GFP | Green Fluorescent Protein |
| HEAL | HIV-1 enhanced lncRNA |
| HIV-1 | Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 |
| IFIT1 | Interferon-Induced Protein With Tetratricopeptide Repeats 1 |
| ISGs | Interferon Stimulated Genes |
| lncRNAs | long non-coding RNAs |
| LTNP | Long-term non-progresser |
| LTR | Long Terminal Repeat |
| MALAT1 | Metastasis-Associated Lung Adenocarcinoma Transcript 1 |
| MX1 | MX Dynamin Like GTPase 1 |
| MX2 | MX Dynamin Like GTPase 2 |
| NEAT1 | Nuclear-Enriched Abundant Target 1 |
| NRON | non-coding Repressor of NFAT |
| NRQ | Normalized Relative Quantities |
| PBMCs | Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells |
| PRC2 | Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 |
| RT-qPCR/qPCR | Reverse Transcription quantitative real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| TRIM5 | Tripartite Motif Containing 5 |
| TTVR | Time to Viral Rebound |
| VL | Viral Load |