| Acronym | Meaning |
| HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| STRP | Short Tandem Repeat Polymorphism |
| SULS | Suffolk Univ. Law School |
| NFCR | National Foundation For Cancer Research |
| FASEB | Federation Of American Societies For Experimental Biology |
| FISH | Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization |
| IOR | Institute Of Religion |
| FRAXA | Fragile X Locus |
| RECOMB | Conference On Computational Molecular Biology |
| MGD | Mouse Genome Database |