| Acronym | Meaning |
| CHOP | Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia |
| GDB/OMIM | Genome Database/Online Mendelian Inheritance In Man |
| NFID | National Foundation For Infectious Diseases |
| ERI | Eleanor Roosevelt Institute |
| BCM | Baylor College Of Medicine |
| ISAG | Intl. Society For Animal Genetics |
| IARC | International Agency For Research On Cancer |
| BACR | British Association For Cancer Research |
| SNP | Single Nucleotide Polymorphism |
| EMS | Environmental Mutagen Society |