Guidelines for human gene nomenclature
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The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee announced plans to change gene symbols to avoid auto-correction.
“a recent announcement by the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) outlined plans for specifically changing gene symbols to avoid auto-correction [3].”
From Gene name errors: Lessons not learned (2021) · cites this paper as [3]
The ‘Nomenclature updates’ section says the HGNC anticipates future gene-symbol changes, and ‘Replacing underused and problematic nomenclature’ says it may update symbols that could cause significant problems. Neither passage specifies avoiding auto-correction as a reason for those changes; searches for auto-correction and spreadsheet-related terms did not find one. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“All gene symbols reported in the text and figures are official human gene symbols as defined by the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC; [24]).”
- Authors
- Bruford, E. A., Braschi, B., Denny, P., Jones, T. E. M., Seal, R. L., & Tweedie, S.
- Affiliations
- European Bioinformatics Institute (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Bruford, Elspeth A.
- Venue
- Nature Genetics
- Published
- 2020-08
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 754-758
- ISSN
- 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1718
- PMC
- PMC7494048
- OpenAlex
- W3047366767
- Cited by
- 218
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 35 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 49 · 2020: 10 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 10.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Nature Genetics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Human Genome Research Institute (U24HG003345)
- Wellcome Trust (208349/Z/17/Z)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Keywords
- gene nomenclature, human genes, RNA genes, pseudogenes, protein-coding genes
- MeSH terms
- Human Genetics, Genes, Humans, Pseudogenes, RNA
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