Conservation anchors in the vertebrate genome

Table 1 The acronyms used for conserved regions (or elements, tags, or sequences) in different publications

Acronym	Meaning	Indicative references
HCR	Highly conserved region	[3]
CNS	Conserved noncoding sequence	[4]
CNC	Conserved non coding	[37]
CNG	Conserved non genic	[26]
CST	Conserved sequence tag	[40]
MCS	Multispecies conserved sequence	[13, 17]
UCE	Ultra conserved element	[14, 18]
ECR	Evolutionary conserved region	[41]
CNE	Conserved noncoding element	[20]
ANCOR	Ancestral non-coding conserved region	This article

This article opts for a pronounceable acronym (ANCOR) as a means of facilitating communication.

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