| Acronym | Meaning |
| GDB/OMIM | Genome Database/Online Mendelian Inheritance In Man |
| SULS | Suffolk Univ. Law School |
| FSHD | Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy |
| FMF | Familial Mediterranean Fever |
| EMG | Encyclopedia Of The Mouse Genome |
| PSC | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center |
| MIMBD | Meet. On The Interconnection Of Mol. Biol. Databases |
| FEBS | Fed. Of Eur. Biochem. Soc. |
| PFGE | Pulsed-field Gel Electrophresis |
| NAPBC | Natl. Action Plan On Breast Cancer |