| Acronym | Meaning |
| OMIM | Online Mendelian Inheritance In Man |
| ESF | European Science Foundation |
| USDA | U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture |
| IARC | International Agency For Research On Cancer |
| MRC | Medical Research Council |
| ISQL | Interactive Standard Query Language |
| SCW | Single-chromosome Workshop |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| AAI | American Association Of Immunologists |
| CM | Centimorgan |