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Published online 6 November 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061106-2
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Troublesome gene names get the boot
Potentially offensive names to be scrubbed from human genetics.
"How would you feel if you were telling a patient they had lunatic fringe mutation?" asks Sue Povey, who chairs the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) Gene Nomenclature Committee. It's a rhetorical question: the answer is that no one should have to make such an announcement.
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