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Human Genome Acronym List
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- AAAI American Association forArtificial
Intelligence
- AAAS American Association for the
Advancement
of Science
- AACC American Association for Clinical
Chemistry
- AACR American Association for Cancer
Research
- AAI American Association of Immunologists
- AAIP American Association of Investigative
Pathologists
- AANP American Association of
Neuropathologists
- AAP Association of American Physicians
- ABA Australian Biotechnol. Assoc.
- ABI Applied Biosystems, Inc.
- ABIC Agricultural Biotechnology Intl. Conf.
- ABRF Association of Biomolecular Resource
Facilities
- ACE angiotensin-converting enzyme
- ACEDB A C. elegans database
- ACMG American College of Medical Genet.
- ACS American Chemical Society
- ADA Americans with Disabilities Act
- AEC Atomic Energy Commission
- AES American Electrophoresis Society
- AFMR American Federation of Medical
Research
- AFIP/ARP Armed Forces Inst. of Pathol./Am.
Registry of Pathol.
- AGSG Alliance of Genetic Support Groups (now
Genetic
Alliance)
- AGT Association of Genetic Technologists
- AHA American Heart Association
- AIBS Am. Inst. of Biol. Soc.
- AIDS acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- AMIA American Medical Informatics Association
- ANGIS Australian National Genomic Info.
Service
- ANL Argonne National Laboratory
- API application programming interface
- ARP American Registry of Pathology
- ASB American Society for Biotechnology
- ASBMB American Society for Biochemistry &
Molecular
Biology
- ASCB American Society for Cell Biology
- ASCI American Society for Clinical Investigation
- ASHG American Society for Human Genetics
- ASIP American Society for Investigative
Pathologists
- ASIS American Society for Information Science
- ASLME American Society of Law, Medicine,
and
Ethics
- ASM American Society for Microbiology
- ASPET American Society for Pharmacology
and
Experimental
Therapeutics
- ATCC American Type Culture Collection
- ATP Advanced Technology Program
- AVS American Vacuum Society
- AWCH Adelaide Women and Children's
Hospital
- BAC
bacterial artificial chromosome
- BACR
British Association for Cancer Research
- BCM
Baylor College of Medicine
- BDG
Batten's disease gene
- BER
Biological and Environmental Research
- BIO
Biotechnology Industry Organization
- BNL
Brookhaven National Laboratory
- bp
base pair
- BSCS
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study
- BS/SCF
Biological Sequence/Structure Computational Facility
- BTCI
BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute
- BTP
Biotechnology Training Programs
- CAE
capillary array electrophoresis
- CaSSS
California Separation Science Society
- CATCMB
Center for Advanced Training in Cell and Molecular Biology
- CATCMB/CUA
Center for Advanced Training in Cell and Molecular Biology/Catholic Univ. of America
- CCD
charged coupled device
- CCM
Chromosome Coordinating Meeting
- CDC
Centers for Disease Control
- cDNA
complementary DNA
- CE
capillary electrophoresis
- CEPH
Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain
- CF
Cystic Fibrosis
- CFF
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- CHH
cartilage-hair hypoplasia
- CHI
Cambridge Healthtech Inst.
- CHOP
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- CIMB
Center for International Meeting on Biology
- CIOMS
Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences
- CIRB
Colorado Institute for Research in Biotechnology
- CLMA
Clinical Laboratory Management Association
- cM
centimorgan
- CMT
Charcot-Marie-Tooth
- CONTIG
Consortium of Teachers in Genetics
- CORN
Council of Regional Networks for Genetic Services
- CRADA
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
- CSHL
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- CTG
trinucleotide repeat
- DDBJ
DNA Data Bank of Japan
- DHHS
Dept. of Health and Human Services
- DIMACS
Center for Discrete Math. & Theoretical Comp. Sci.
- DM
myotonic dystrophy
- DMD
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- DNA
deoxyribonucleic acid
- DOE
Department of Energy
- ECB
European Congress on Biotechnology
- EDS
electronic data submission
- EEOC
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- EL.B.A.
ELectronics and Biotechnology Advanced
- ELSI
ethical, legal, and social issues
- EMBL
European Mol. Biol. Lab.
- EMBO
European Molecular Biology Organisation
- EMG
Encyclopedia of the Mouse Genome
- EMS
Environmental Mutagen Society
- EORTC
European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer
- ERDA
Energy Research and Development Administration
- ERI
Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
- ES
embryonic stem
- ESF
European Science Foundation
- ESHG
European Society of Human Genetics
- ESI
electrospray ionization
- EST
expressed sequence tag
- EUCIB
European Collaborative Interspecific Backcross
- EURESCO
European Research Conferences
- FAP
familial adenomatous polyposis
- FASEB
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
- FCM
flow cytometry
- FEBS
Fed. of Eur. Biochem. Soc.
- FISH
fluorescence in situ hybridization
- FMF
familial Mediterranean fever
- FRAXA
fragile X locus
- FSHD
facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
- FTICR
fourier transform ioncyclotron resonance
- FVEA
Fundacion Valenciana de Estudios Avanzados
- GAS
Genome Automation System
- GBASE
Genome Database of the Mouse
- GBR
Global Business Research
- GDB
Genome Database
- GDB/OMIM
Genome Database/Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
- GESTEC
Genome Science and Technology Center
- GIST
Genome Informatics System of Transputers
- GLaRGG
Great Lakes Regional Genetics Group
- GMCRF
General Motors Cancer Res. Foundation
- GMD
Genomic Map Design
- GPI
Genetics and Public Issues Program
- GRAIL
Gene Recognition and Analysis Internet Link
- GRC
Gordon Res. Conf.
- GSA
Genetics Societies of America
- GSDB
Genome Sequence Data Base
- HAEC
human artificial episomal chromosome
- HELSRD
Health Effects and Life Science Research Division
- HERAC
Health and Environmental Research Advisory Committee
- HGCC
Human Genome Coordinating Committee
- HGM
Human Genome Meeting
- HGMIS
Human Genome Management Information System
- HGN
Human Genome News
- HGP
Human Genome Project
- HHMI
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- HICSS
Hawaii Intl. Conf. on Systems Sci.
- HLA
human leukocyte antigen
- HMDP
Homology Database
- HNPCC
hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer
- HSA
human serum albumin
- HUGO
Human Genome Organisation
- IARC
International Agency for Research on Cancer
- IBC
International Business Communications
- IBEX
International Biotechnology EXpo
- IBF
International Business Forum
- IBI
Institute for Biotechnology Information
- ICES
International Council of Electrophoresis Societies
- ICGEB
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
- ICHG
International Congress of Human Genetics
- ICPEMC
International Commission on Protection Against Environmental Mutagens and
Carcinogens
- ICRF
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
- IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IG
IntelliGenetics
- IGES
International Genetics Epidemiology Societies
- IJCAI
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- IMA
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
- IMACS
International Association for Mathematics and Computers In Simulation
- IMAGE
Integrated Molecular Analysis of Gene Expression
- IMGS
Intl. Mammalian Genome Society
- INRIA
French Natl. Inst. for Research in Computer Science and Control
- IOM
Institute of Medicine
- IOR
Institute of Religion
- ISAG
Intl. Society for Animal Genetics
- ISMB
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
- ISONG
Intl. Soc. of Nurses in Genet.
- ISQL
interactive standard query language
- ISTR
Institute for Science Training and Research
- IUBMB
Intl. Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- IU
Indiana University
- IVD
in vitro Diagnostic
- JGI
Joint Genome Institute
- LANL
Los Alamos National Laboratory
- LBNL
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- LLNL
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- LTI
Life Technologies, Inc.
- MALDI
matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization
- Mb
megabase
- MBC
Massachusetts Biotechnology Council
- MBL
Marine Biological Laboratory
- MCD
Mouse Cytogenetic Database
- MDA
Muscular Dystrophy Assoc.
- MEMS
Microelectromechanical Systems
- MGC
Mouse Genome Conference
- MGD
Mouse Genome Database
- MGI
Microbial Genome Initiative
- MHC
major histocompatibility complex
- MIMBD
Meet. on the Interconnection of Mol. Biol. Databases
- MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MMRF
Marshfield Medical Research Foundation
- MNBWS
Miami Nature Biotechnology Winter Symposium
- MOD
March of Dimes
- MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
- MRC
Medical Research Council
- MS
mass spectrometry
- NABT
Natl. Assoc. of Biology Teachers
- NACHGR
Natl. Advisory Council for Human Genome Res.
- NAPBC
Natl. Action Plan on Breast Cancer
- NAS
Natl. Academy of Sciences
- NASA
Natl. Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NBAC
Natl. Bioethics Advisory Commission
- NCGR
National Center for Genome Resources
- NCI
Natl. Cancer Institute
- NCSA
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- NCSL
National Conference of State Legislatures
- NCSU
North Carolina State University
- NEH
National Endowment for the Humanities
- NFCR
National Foundation for Cancer Research
- NFID
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
- NHGRI
Natl. Human Genome Res. Inst.
- NICHD
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- NIGMS
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- NIH
National Institutes of Health
- NIGMS
Natl. Institute of General Medical Sciences
- NIST
Natl. Inst. of Standards and Technology
- NLGLP
National Laboratory Gene Library Project
- NLM
National Library of Medicine
- NMHCC
National Managed Health Care Congress
- nmr
nuclear magnetic resonance
- NORD
National Organization for Rare Disorders
- NRC
National Research Council
- NRSA
National Research Service Award
- NSF
Natl. Sci. Foundation
- NSGC
National Society of Genetic Counselors
- NSTA
National Science Teachers Association
- NYAS
New York Academy of Science
- OAINN
Ohio Aerospace Institute Neural Networks
- OBER
Office of Biological and Environmental Research
- OHER
Office of Health and Environmental Research
- OMIM
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
- OPRR
Office of Protection from Res. Risks
- ORAU
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
- ORDA
NIH Office of Recombinant DNA Activities
- ORISE
Oak Ridge Inst. for Science and Education
- ORF
open reading frame
- ORNL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- OSU
Oregon State University
- OTA
Office of Technology Assessment
- PAC
P1 artificial chromosome
- PACHG
Program Advisory Committee on the Human Genome
- PCR
polymerase chain reaction
- PFGE
pulsed-field gel electrophresis
- PG
Plant Genome
- PIR
Protein Info. Resource
- PNNL
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- PRIM&R
Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research
- PSC
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- QDFM
Quantitative DNA Fiber Mapping
- RAPD
random amplified polymorphic DNA
- RARA
retinoic acid receptor
- RECOMB
Conference on Computational Molecular Biology
- RFLP
restriction fragment length polymorphism
- RH
radiation hybrid
- RLGS
Restriction Landmark Genomic Scanning
- SASE
sample sequencing
- SBH
sequencing by hybridization
- SBIR
Small Business Innovation Research
- SCAN
Sequence Comparison ANalysis Program
- SCE
School of Continuing Education
- SCI
Society of Chemical Industry
- SCW
single-chromosome workshop
- SDC
San Diego Conference
- SERGG
Southeast Regional Genetics Group
- SHOM
sequencing by hybridization on matrices
- SIAM
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- SIB
Society for Industrial Biology
- SIM
Society for Industrial Microbiology
- SIMS
Societal Institute of the Mathematical Sciences
- SIVB
Society for In Vitro Biology
- SNL
Sandia National Laboratory
- SNP
single nucleotide polymorphism
- snRNP
small nuclear ribonucleo protein particle
- SQL
standard query language
- SSLP
single-sequence length polymorphism
- SSR
simple sequence repeat
- STM
scanning tunneling microscope
- STRP
short tandem repeat polymorphism
- STS
sequence-tagged site
- SULS
Suffolk Univ. Law School
- TCR
T-cell receptor
- TIGR
The Inst. for Genomic Research
- TIGR/NIST
The Inst. for Genomic Res./Natl. Inst. of Standards and Technol.
- UC
University of California
- UCB
University of California, Berkeley
- UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles
- UICM
Univ. of Illinois College of Medicine
- UMBC
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- UNC
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- UMDS
United Medical & Dental Schools (Univ. of London)
- UNESCO
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
- USDA
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
- UT
University of Tennessee
- UW
University of Washington
- WCCS
Workshop on Complete cDNA Sequencing
- WHS
Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome
- WLMG
Wellcome Laboratory for Molecular Genetics
- WSES
World Scientific and Engineering Society
- WWW
World Wide Web
- XIST
candidate gene for X-inactivation center
- YAC
yeast artificial chromosome
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