| Acronym | Meaning |
| UCLA | University Of California |
| NBAC | Natl. Bioethics Advisory Commission |
| NFCR | National Foundation For Cancer Research |
| TIGR/NIST | The Inst. For Genomic Res./Natl. Inst. Of Standards And Technol. |
| NIGMS | National Institute Of General Medical Sciences |
| GLARGG | Great Lakes Regional Genetics Group |
| WHS | Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome |
| SSLP | Single-sequence Length Polymorphism |
| SIMS | Societal Institute Of The Mathematical Sciences |
| ASPET | American Society For Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics |