| Acronym | Meaning |
| FSHD | Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy |
| BCM | Baylor College Of Medicine |
| BS/SCF | Biological Sequence/Structure Computational Facility |
| EMS | Environmental Mutagen Society |
| RAPD | Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA |
| NMR | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
| LBNL | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| IUBMB | Intl. Union Of Biochemistry And Molecular Biology |
| SHOM | Sequencing By Hybridization On Matrices |
| CDNA | Complementary DNA |