| Acronym | Meaning |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| GRC | Gordon Res. Conf. |
| CIMB | Center For International Meeting On Biology |
| CHH | Cartilage-hair Hypoplasia |
| AAP | Association Of American Physicians |
| EMBO | European Molecular Biology Organisation |
| ASIP | American Society For Investigative Pathologists |
| LTI | Life Technologies |
| EUCIB | European Collaborative Interspecific Backcross |
| RECOMB | Conference On Computational Molecular Biology |