Condition Name and Abbreviation — curated by the NLM and selected from among the names used by the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (SACHDNC), National Newborn Screening Information System (NNSIS), the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG), the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)/American Health Information Community (AHIC) Personalized Health Care Work Group, and input from the newborn screening community.

SACHDNC Category — based on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Recommended Uniform Screening Panel of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (SACHDNC). Conditions designated as "core" by SACHDNC should be included in every newborn screening program, and "secondary" conditions are some of the disorders that may be detected during screening for a core disorder. Conditions classified as "other" are those that are screened for by some states but are not part of the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel.

SNOMED CT® Code — Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine — Clinical Terms code is assigned by the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO). SNOMED CT is a concept-oriented clinical terminology that has been designated as a U.S. standard for electronic health information exchange. The Newborn Screening Coding and Terminology Guide uses some codes from the US Extension to SNOMED CT.

ICD-9-CM Code — International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification code is assigned to diagnoses associated with hospital utilization in the U.S. It is a current US standard for use in administrative healthcare transactions. Although ICD-9-CM codes are fairly specific, in certain cases, the same ICD-9-CM code might apply to several disorders in the same group (e.g. amino acid disorders).

ICD-10-CM Code — International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification code will be replacing ICD-9-CM codes in 2013 as a HIPAA standard. Although ICD-10-CM codes are fairly specific, in certain cases, the same ICD-10-CM code might apply to multiple related disorders.

Affected Protein — the structure that is abnormal in this condition. The affected protein could be an enzyme, a hormone, or a specific molecule such as hemoglobin or immunoglobulin chain. If the affected protein is an enzyme, it will have an Enzyme Commission (EC) number.

Enzyme Commission (EC) Number — a unique identifier for the affected enzyme (if the affected protein is an enzyme); the EC number is assigned by the Recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology on the Nomenclature and Classification of Enzymes by the Reactions they Catalyse.

UniProt Number — a unique identifier assigned to all proteins, including enzymes, hemoglobin subunits, and immunoglobulin chains. The UniProt database is maintained by the Universal Protein Resource, an international collaboration.