| Acronym | Meaning |
| ASB | American Society For Biotechnology |
| NBAC | Natl. Bioethics Advisory Commission |
| GAS | Genome Automation System |
| OMIM | Online Mendelian Inheritance In Man |
| RECOMB | Conference On Computational Molecular Biology |
| DM | Myotonic Dystrophy |
| NSTA | National Science Teachers Association |
| IGES | International Genetics Epidemiology Societies |
| ORAU | Oak Ridge Associated Universities |
| STRP | Short Tandem Repeat Polymorphism |