| Acronym | Meaning |
| ANL | Argonne National Laboratory |
| NACHGR | Natl. Advisory Council For Human Genome Res. |
| AHA | American Heart Association |
| YAC | Yeast Artificial Chromosome |
| SNP | Single Nucleotide Polymorphism |
| UMBC | University Of Maryland |
| GSDB | Genome Sequence Data Base |
| FASEB | Federation Of American Societies For Experimental Biology |
| OMIM | Online Mendelian Inheritance In Man |
| SCI | Society Of Chemical Industry |