| ASO | Antisense oligonucleotide |
| BMD | Becker muscular dystrophy |
| CDS | Coding DNA sequence |
| DMD | Duchenne muscular dystrophy |
| ES | Exon skipping |
| ESE | Exonic splicing enhancer |
| ESS | Exonic splicing silencers |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| ISE | Intronic splicing enhancer |
| ISS | Intronic splicing silencers |
| NMD | Nonsense-Mediated Decay |
| ONG | Oncogene |
| PTC | Premature termination codon |
| snRNA | Small nuclear RNA |
| TSG | Tumor suppressor gene |