PMC:1852721 / 24217-24760 JSONTXT

{"target":"https://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PMC/sourceid/1852721","sourcedb":"PMC","sourceid":"1852721","source_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/1852721","text":"It has been useful in speech and writing to have acronyms pronounced as single words, for example, TAR syndrome (MIM #274000) for thrombocytopenia–absent radius syndrome, and VATER association (MIM 192350) for vertebral defects, anal atresia, tracheoesophageal fistula with esophageal atresia, and radial dysplasia. Initialisms, such as OFD1 (MIM #311200)–OFD10 (MIM 165590) for orofaciodigital syndromes, have also been useful. Family initials, however, as in the Opitz G/BBB syndrome (MIM #300000), have been abandoned as a method of naming.","tracks":[]}