| Acronym | Meaning |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| IVD | In Vitro Diagnostic |
| ORDA | NIH Office Of Recombinant DNA Activities |
| ASIP | American Society For Investigative Pathologists |
| IOR | Institute Of Religion |
| MB | Megabase |
| FRAXA | Fragile X Locus |
| CE | Capillary Electrophoresis |
| SHOM | Sequencing By Hybridization On Matrices |
| EMG | Encyclopedia Of The Mouse Genome |