{"id":359,"date":"2006-11-13T21:40:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T19:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2006\/11\/13\/hugo-changing-offensive-gene-names\/"},"modified":"2006-11-14T09:57:10","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T07:57:10","slug":"hugo-changing-offensive-gene-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/11\/hugo-changing-offensive-gene-names\/","title":{"rendered":"HUGO Changing Offensive Gene Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geneticsandhealth.com\/2006\/11\/12\/hugo-changing-offensive-gene-names\/\">Hsien Hsien Lei<\/a> has a good comment on gene names approved by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gene.ucl.ac.uk\/nomenclature\/\">Human Genome Organisation (HUGO)<\/a> Gene Nomenclature Committee which are nevertheless offending . Some of the inappropriate names are LFNG &#8211; lunatic fringe homolog (Drosophila), MFNG manic fringe homolog (Drosophila) as well as SHH sonic hedgehog homolog (Drosophila). There are many more names that arise only from a particular culture (like death executioner Bcl-2); it seems also a particular kind of humour to call a deaf mouse Beethoven. Yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 07.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hsien Hsien Lei has a good comment on gene names approved by Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) Gene Nomenclature Committee which are nevertheless offending . Some of the inappropriate names are LFNG &#8211; lunatic fringe homolog (Drosophila), MFNG manic fringe homolog (Drosophila) as well as SHH sonic hedgehog homolog (Drosophila). There are many more names that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/11\/hugo-changing-offensive-gene-names\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HUGO Changing Offensive Gene Names<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2945,151,152],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-genetics-biology","tag-gene_nomenclature_committee","tag-human_genome_organisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}