| Acronym | Meaning |
| LBNL | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| ICHG | International Congress Of Human Genetics |
| WHS | Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome |
| BNL | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| FISH | Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization |
| CTG | Trinucleotide Repeat |
| SSLP | Single-sequence Length Polymorphism |
| ARP | American Registry Of Pathology |
| IBI | Institute For Biotechnology Information |
| ASM | American Society For Microbiology |