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. 2025 Feb 20;8(5):2924. doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v8i5.2924
Acronym Meaning
ALF Anonymised linkage field
AWMGS All-Wales Medical Genomics Service
CAG Confidentiality Advisory Group
CAVUHB Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
CF Cystic Fibrosis
CFTR/CFTR Cystic fibrosis transconductance regulator; non-italics represents protein; italics represents gene
DHCW Digital Health and Care Wales
HGVS Human Genome Variation Society
HWIS Health Wales Informatics Service (now Digital Health and Care Wales)
IRT Immunoreactive trypsin
LIMS Laboratory information management system
NBS Newborn screening
NER Named entity recognition
NHS National Health Service
NLP Natural language processing
PII Personal identifiable information
POS Part of speech
REC Research Ethics Committee
SAIL Secure Anonymised Information Linkage
SQL Structured Query Language