| AA | arachidonic acid |
| ARD | ankyrin repeat domain |
| CMT | Charcot-Marie-Tooth |
| FDAB | familial digital arthropathy-brachydactyly |
| MAPPIT | Mammalian Protein-Protein Interaction Trap |
| SD | skeletal dysplasias |
| SMA | spinal muscular atrophy |
| TIRF | total internal reflection fluorescence |
| TIR-FRAP | Total Internal Reflection - Fluorescence Recovery After Photo-bleaching |
| TRP channel | Transient Receptor Potential channel |
| TRPV4 | TRP channel Vanilloid 4 |
| ZARDs | ZC4H2-associated rare disorders |