| Acronym | Meaning |
| CMT | Charcot-Marie-Tooth |
| IBI | Institute For Biotechnology Information |
| NFCR | National Foundation For Cancer Research |
| UNC | University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill |
| ISTR | Institute For Science Training And Research |
| DIMACS | Center For Discrete Math. & Theoretical Comp. Sci. |
| ATCC | American Type Culture Collection |
| ABIC | Agricultural Biotechnology Intl. Conf. |
| GRAIL | Gene Recognition And Analysis Internet Link |
| RFLP | Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism |