| Acronym | Meaning |
| NCSA | National Center For Supercomputing Applications |
| HERAC | Health And Environmental Research Advisory Committee |
| FASEB | Federation Of American Societies For Experimental Biology |
| NYAS | New York Academy Of Science |
| WHS | Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome |
| ARP | American Registry Of Pathology |
| HLA | Human Leukocyte Antigen |
| NIH | National Institutes Of Health |
| UW | University Of Washington |
| GSDB | Genome Sequence Data Base |