| Acronym | Meaning |
| ORISE | Oak Ridge Inst. For Science And Education |
| CDNA | Complementary DNA |
| FSHD | Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy |
| GRC | Gordon Res. Conf. |
| NSF | Natl. Sci. Foundation |
| RFLP | Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism |
| AFMR | American Federation Of Medical Research |
| MGI | Microbial Genome Initiative |
| SNL | Sandia National Laboratory |
| MIMBD | Meet. On The Interconnection Of Mol. Biol. Databases |