| Acronym | Meaning |
| GSDB | Genome Sequence Data Base |
| OHER | Office Of Health And Environmental Research |
| OBER | Office Of Biological And Environmental Research |
| OMIM | Online Mendelian Inheritance In Man |
| CASSS | California Separation Science Society |
| ERI | Eleanor Roosevelt Institute |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| NFCR | National Foundation For Cancer Research |
| EST | Expressed Sequence Tag |
| ISAG | Intl. Society For Animal Genetics |