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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 10.
Published in final edited form as: Hum Mutat. 2019 Nov 14;41(1):150–168. doi: 10.1002/humu.23902

Table 1 –

Abbreviations Glossary

Acronym Expansion
aCGH array-comparative genomic hybridization
AAMR Alu-Alu mediated rearrangement
APR A-phased repeat
BIR Break-induced replication
BAEP Brain Auditory Evoked Potential
CC Corpus Callosum
CNV Copy-number variant
CP Cerebral palsy
DSB Double stranded break
DD/ID Developmental delay/intellectual disability
DR Direct repeat
EEG Electroencephalogram
EONDT Early-onset neurological disease trait
FoSTeS Fork stalling template switching
GERD Gastroesophageal reflux disease
GI Genomic instability
GQ G-quadruplex
HSIR Highly similar intrachromosomal repeat
IR Inverted repeat
LCR Low-copy repeat
LINE Long interspersed nuclear element
LoF Loss of function
MAF Minor Allele Frequency
MMBIR Microhomology-mediated break-induced replication
MMEJ Microhomology-mediated end joining
MR Mirror repeat
MRI Magnetic resonance imaging
NADE p75NTR-associated cell death executor
NHEJ Non-homologous end joining
PMD Pelizaeus Merzbacher disease
PVL Periventricular leukomalacia
seDSB single ended double stranded break
SINE Short interspersed nuclear element
SNV Single nucleotide variant.
SPG2 Spastic paraplegia type 2
SRO Smallest region of overlap
SRS Serial replication slippage
STR Short tandem repeat
SV Structural variation
WM White matter
XCI X-chromosome inactivation
Xq22-PLP1-DEL Xq22 deletion that encompasses any part of PLP1