HGNC publications

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2023

McCarthy FM, Jones TEM, Kwitek AE, Smith CL, Vize PD, Westerfield M & Bruford EA. The case for standardizing gene nomenclature in vertebrates. Nature 614, E31–E32 (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05633-w PMCID: PMC9931569 PMID: 36792746

Seal RL, Braschi B, Gray K, Jones TEM, Tweedie S, Haim-Vilmovsky L, Bruford EA. Genenames.org: the HGNC resources in 2023. Nucleic Acids Res. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac888 PMID: 36243972 PMCID: PMC9825485

Jones TEM, Yates B, Braschi B, Gray K, Tweedie S, Seal RL, Bruford EA. The VGNC: expanding standardized vertebrate gene nomenclature. Genome Biol. 2023 May 12;24(1):115. DOI: 10.1186/s13059-023-02957-2 PMCID: PMC10176861 PMID: 37173739

2022

Braschi B, Bruford EA, Cavanagh AT, Neuman SD, Bashirullah A. The bridge-like lipid transfer protein (BLTP) gene group: introducing new nomenclature based on structural homology indicating shared function. Hum Genomics. 2022 Dec 2;16(1):66. DOI: 10.1186/s40246-022-00439-3 PMID: 36461115 PMCID: PMC9719229.

Bruford EA, Braschi B, Haim-Vilmovsky L, Jones TEM, Seal RL, Tweedie S. The importance of being the HGNC. Hum Genomics. 2022 Nov 15;16(1):58. DOI: 10.1186/s40246-022-00432-w PMID: 36380364 PMCID: PMC9664783

Dornburg A, Mallik R, Wang Z, Bernal MA, Thompson B, Bruford EA, Nebert DW, Vasiliou V, Yohe LR, Yoder JA, Townsend JP. Placing human gene families into their evolutionary context. Hum Genomics. 2022 Nov 11;16(1):56. PMID: 36369063, PMCID: PMC9652883, DOI: 10.1186/s40246-022-00429-5

Seal RL, Denny P, Bruford EA, Gribkova AK, Landsman D, Marzluff WF, McAndrews M, Panchenko AR, Shaytan AK, Talbert PB. A standardized nomenclature for mammalian histone genes. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2022 Oct 1;15(1):34. PMID: 36180920 PMCID: PMC9526256

Seal RL, Tweedie S, Bruford EA. A standardised nomenclature for long non-coding RNAs. IUBMB Life. 2022 Jul 26. DOI: 10.1002/iub.2663, PMID: 35880706

Mudge JM, Ruiz-Orera J, Prensner JR, Brunet MA, Calvet F, Jungreis I, Gonzalez JM, Magrane M, Martinez TF, Schulz JF, Yang YT, Albà MM, Aspden JL, Baranov PV, Bazzini AA, Bruford E, Martin MJ, Calviello L, Carvunis AR, Chen J, Couso JP, Deutsch EW, Flicek P, Frankish A, Gerstein M, Hubner N, Ingolia NT, Kellis M, Menschaert G, Moritz RL, Ohler U, Roucou X, Saghatelian A, Weissman JS, van Heesch S. Standardized annotation of translated open reading frames. Nat Biotechnol. 2022 Jul 13. DOI: 10.1038/s41587-022-01369-0 PMID: 35831657 PMCID: PMC9757701

Bruford E, On Behalf Of The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee. Comment on Herring et al. The Use of "Retardation" in FRAXA, FMRP, FMR1 and Other Designations. Cells. 2022 Jun 16;11(12):1937. DOI: 10.3390/cells11121937 PMID: 35741066 PMCID: PMC9221639

Nevers Y, Jones TEM, Jyothi D, Yates B, Ferret M, Portell-Silva L, Codo L, Cosentino S, Marcet-Houben M, Vlasova A, Poidevin L, Kress A, Hickman M, Persson E, Piližota I, Guijarro-Clarke C; OpenEBench team the Quest for Orthologs Consortium, Iwasaki W, Lecompte O, Sonnhammer E, Roos DS, Gabaldón T, Thybert D, Thomas PD, Hu Y, Emms DM, Bruford E, Capella-Gutierrez S, Martin MJ, Dessimoz C, Altenhoff A. The Quest for Orthologs orthology benchmark service in 2022. Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 May 12:gkac330 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac330 PMID: 35552456. PMCID: PMC9252809

DiStefano MT, Goehringer S, Babb L, Alkuraya FS, Amberger J, Amin M, Austin-Tse C, Balzotti M, Berg JS, Birney E, Bocchini C, Bruford EA, Coffey AJ, Collins H, Cunningham F, Daugherty LC, Einhorn Y, Firth HV, Fitzpatrick DR, Foulger RE, Goldstein J, Hamosh A, Hurles MR, Leigh SE, Leong IUS, Maddirevula S, Martin CL, McDonagh EM, Olry A, Puzriakova A, Radtke K, Ramos EM, Rath A, Riggs ER, Roberts AM, Rodwell C, Snow C, Stark Z, Tahiliani J, Tweedie S, Ware JS, Weller P, Williams E, Wright CF, Yates TM, Rehm HL. The Gene Curation Coalition: A global effort to harmonize gene-disease evidence resources. Genet Med. 2022 May 4:S1098-3600(22)00746-8. DOI: 10.1016/j.gim.2022.04.017. PMID: 35507016. PMCID: PMC7613247

Shmerling M, Chalik M, Smorodinsky NI, Meeker A, Roy S, Sagi-Assif O, Meshel T, Danilevsky A, Shomron N, Levinger S, Nishry B, Baruchi D, Shargorodsky A, Ziv R, Sarusi-Portuguez A, Lahav M, Ehrlich M, Braschi B, Bruford E, Witz IP, Wreschner DH. LY6S, a New IFN-Inducible Human Member of the Ly6a Subfamily Expressed by Spleen Cells and Associated with Inflammation and Viral Resistance. Immunohorizons. 2022 Apr 19;6(4):253-272. DOI: 10.4049/immunohorizons.2200018. PMID: 35440514. PMCID: PMC9574348

Braschi B, Omran H, Witman G.B, Pazour, G.J, Pfister, K.K, Bruford, E.A, King, S.M. Consensus nomenclature for dyneins and associated assembly factors. J Cell Biol. 2022 Feb 7;221(2):e202109014. Epub 2022 Jan 10. PMID: 35006274 PMCID: PMC8754002 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202109014

Ho M, Thompson B, Fisk JN, Nebert DW, Bruford EA, Vasiliou V, Bunick CG. Update of the keratin gene family: evolution, tissue-specific expression patterns, and relevance to clinical disorders. Hum Genomics. 2022 Jan 6;16(1):1. DOI: 10.1186/s40246-021-00374-9. PMID: 34991727. PMCID: PMC8733776

2021

Braschi B, Seal RL, Tweedie S, Jones TEM, Bruford EA. The risks of using unapproved gene symbols. Am J Hum Genet. 2021 Oct 7;108(10):1813-1816. PMCID: PMC8546045, DOI:10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.09.004 PMID:34626580 PDF

Bruford EA, Antonescu CR, Carroll AJ, Chinnaiyan A, Cree IA, Cross NPC, Dalgleish D, Gale RP, Harrison CJ, Hastings RJ, Huret JL, Johansson B, Le Beau M, Mecucci C, Mertens F, Verhaak R, Mitelman F. HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) recommendations for the designation of gene fusions. Leukemia. 2021 PMID: 34615987, PMCID: PMC8550944, DOI: 10.1038/s41375-021-01436-6

Yates B, Gray KA, Jones TEM, Bruford EA. Updates to HCOP: the HGNC comparison of orthology predictions tool. Brief Bioinform. 2021 May 6. PMID: 33959747, PMCID: PMC8574622, DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab155

Vasiliou V, Veselkov K, Bruford E, Reichardt JKV. Standardized nomenclature and open science in Human Genomics. Hum Genomics. 2021 Feb 22;15(1):13. PMID: 33612096 PMCID: PMC7898730 DOI: 10.1186/s40246-021-00312-9

Fujiyoshi K, Bruford EA, Mroz P, Sims CL, O'Leary TJ, Lo AWI, Chen N, Patel NR, Patel KP, Seliger B, Song M, Monzon FA, Carter AB, Gulley ML, Mockus SM, Phung TL, Feilotter H, Williams HE, Ogino S. Opinion: Standardizing gene product nomenclature-a call to action. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Jan 19;118(3):e2025207118. PMID: 33408252 PMCID: PMC7826363 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2025207118

2020

The RNAcentral Consortium (inc. Bruford, E and Seal, R). RNAcentral 2021: secondary structure integration, improved sequence search and new member databases. Nucleic Acids Res. PMID: 33106848 PMCID: PMC7779037 DOI:10.1093/nar/gkaa921

Tweedie S, Braschi B, Gray KA, Jones TEM, Seal RL, Yates B, Bruford EA. Genenames.org: the HGNC and VGNC resources in 2021. Nucleic Acids Res. PMID: 33152070 PMCID: PMC7779007 DOI:10.1093/nar/gkaa980

Bruford EA, Braschi B, Denny P, Jones TEM, Seal RL, Tweedie S. Guidelines for human gene nomenclature. Nat Genet. 2020 Aug;52(8):754-758 PMID:32747822 PMCID: PMC7494048 DOI:10.1038/s41588-020-0669-3

Thompson B, Davidson EA, Liu W, Nebert DW, Bruford EA, Zhao H, Dermitzakis ET, Thompson DC, Vasiliou V. Overview of PAX gene family: analysis of human tissue-specific variant expression and involvement in human disease. Hum Genet. 2020 Jul 29. PMID:32728807 PMCID:PMC7939107 DOI:10.1007/s00439-020-02212-9

Olender T, Jones TEM, Bruford E, Lancet D. A unified nomenclature for vertebrate olfactory receptors. BMC Evol Biol. 2020 Apr 15;20(1):42. PMID:32295537 PMCID:PMC7160942 DOI:10.1186/s12862-020-01607-6

Seal RL, Chen LL, Griffiths-Jones S, Lowe TM, Mathews MB, O'Reilly D, Pierce AJ, Stadler PF, Ulitsky I, Wolin SL, Bruford EA. A guide to naming human non-coding RNA genes. EMBO J. 2020 Mar 16;39(6):e103777. PMID:32090359 PMCID:PMC7073466 DOI:10.15252/embj.2019103777

2010 - 2019

Mudge JM, Jungreis I, Hunt T, Gonzalez JM, Wright JC, Kay M, Davidson C, Fitzgerald S, Seal R, Tweedie S, He L, Waterhouse RM, Li Y, Bruford E, Choudhary JS, Frankish A, Kellis M. Discovery of high-confidence human protein-coding genes and exons by whole-genome PhyloCSF helps elucidate 118 GWAS loci. Genome Res. 2019 Dec;29(12):2073-2087. PMID:31537640 PMCID:PMC6886504 DOI:10.1101/gr.246462.118

Charkoftaki G, Wang Y, McAndrews M, Bruford EA, Thompson DC, Vasiliou V, Nebert DW. Update on the human and mouse lipocalin (LCN) gene family, including evidence the mouse Mup cluster is result of an "evolutionary bloom". Hum Genomics. 2019 Feb 19;13(1):11. PMID:30782214 PMCID:PMC6381713 DOI:10.1186/s40246-019-0191-9

The RNAcentral Consortium (inc. Bruford, E and Seal, R). RNAcentral: a hub of information for non-coding RNA sequences. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Jan 8;47(D1):D221-D229 PMID:30395267 PMCID:PMC6324050 DOI:10.1093/nar/gky1034

Braschi B, Denny P, Gray K, Jones T, Seal R, Tweedie S, Yates B, Bruford E. Genenames.org: the HGNC and VGNC resources in 2019. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Jan 8;47(D1):D786-D792. PMID:30304474 PMCID:PMC6324057 DOI:10.1093/nar/gky930

Perbal B, Tweedie S, Bruford E. The official unified nomenclature adopted by the HGNC calls for the use of the acronyms, CCN1-6, and discontinuation in the use of CYR61, CTGF, NOV and WISP 1-3 respectively. J Cell Commun Signal. 2018 Nov 5. PMID:30393824 PMCID:PMC6235780 DOI:10.1007/s12079-018-0491-1

Pujar S, O'Leary NA, Farrell CM, Loveland JE, Mudge JM, Wallin C, Girón CG, Diekhans M, Barnes I, Bennett R, Berry AE, Cox E, Davidson C, Goldfarb T, Gonzalez JM, Hunt T, Jackson J, Joardar V, Kay MP, Kodali VK, Martin FJ, McAndrews M, McGarvey KM, Murphy M, Rajput B, Rangwala SH, Riddick LD, Seal RL, Suner MM, Webb D, Zhu S, Aken BL, Bruford EA, Bult CJ, Frankish A, Murphy T, Pruitt KD. Consensus coding sequence (CCDS) database: a standardized set of human and mouse protein-coding regions supported by expert curation. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Jan 4;46(D1):D221-D228. PMID:29126148 PMCID:PMC5753299 DOI:10.1093/nar/gkx1031

de Castro F, Seal R, Maggi R. ANOS1: a unified nomenclature for Kallmann syndrome 1 gene (KAL1) and anosmin-1. Brief Funct Genomics (2017) 16 (4): 205-210 [Epub ahead of print] PMID:27899353 DOI:10.1093/bfgp/elw037

Yates B, Braschi B, Gray K, Seal R, Tweedie S, Bruford E. Genenames.org: the HGNC and VGNC resources in 2017. Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Jan 4; 45(D1):D619-625. PMID:27799471 PMCID:PMC5210531

Gladyshev VN, Arnér ES, Berry MJ, Brigelius-Flohé R, Bruford EA, Burk RF, Carlson BA, Castellano S, Chavatte L, Conrad M, Copeland PR, Diamond AM, Driscoll DM, Ferreiro A, Flohé L, Green FR, Guigó R, Handy DE, Hatfield DL, Hesketh J, Hoffmann PR, Holmgren A, Hondal RJ, Howard MT, Huang K, Kim HY, Kim IY, Köhrle J, Krol A, Kryukov GV, Lee BJ, Lee BC, Lei XG, Liu Q, Lescure A, Lobanov AV, Loscalzo J, Maiorino M, Mariotti M, Prabhu KS, Rayman MP, Rozovsky S, Salinas G, Schmidt EE, Schomburg L, Schweizer U, Simonović M, Sunde RA, Tsuji PA, Tweedie S, Ursini F, Whanger PD, Zhang Y. Selenoprotein Gene Nomenclature. J Biol Chem. 2016 Nov 11;291(46):24036-24040. PMID:27645994 PMCID:PMC5104929

Marenco L, Wang R, McDougal R, Olender T, Twik M, Bruford E, Liu X, Zhang J, Lancet D, Shepherd G, Crasto C. ORDB, HORDE, ODORactor and other on-line knowledge resources of olfactory receptor-odorant interactions. Database (Oxford) 2016 Oct 2. PMID:27694208 PMCID:PMC5045865

Nebert DW, Dong H, Bruford EA, Thompson DC, Joenje H, Vasiliou V. Letter to the editor for "Update of the human and mouse Fanconi anemia genes". Hum Genomics 2016 2016 Jul 4;10(1):25. PMID:27377885 PMCID:PMC4932714

Loughner CL, Bruford EA, McAndrews MS, Delp EE, Swamynathan S, Swamynathan SK. Organization, evolution and functions of the human and mouse Ly6/uPAR family genes. Hum Genomics 2016 Apr 21; 10(1):10. PMID:27098205 PMCID:PMC4839075

Gray KA , Seal RL , Tweedie S , Wright MW , Bruford EA. A review of the new HGNC gene family resource. Hum Genomics. 2016 Feb 3;10(1):6. PMID:26842383 PMCID:PMC4739092

Dong H, Nebert DW, Bruford EA, Thompson DC, Joenje H, Vasiliou V. Update of the human and mouse Fanconi anemia genes. Hum Genomics 2015 Nov 24; 9(1):32. PMID:26596371 PMCID:PMC4657327

Kalman LV, Agúndez JA, Appell ML, Black JL, Bell GC, Boukouvala S, Bruckner C, Bruford E, Bruckner C, Caudle K, Coulthard S, Daly AK, Del Tredici AL, den Dunnen JT, Drozda K, Everts R, Flockhart D, Freimuth R, Gaedigk A, Hachad H, Hartshorne T, Ingelman-Sundberg M, Klein TE, Lauschke VM, Maglott DR, McLeod HL, McMillin GA, Meyer UA, Müller DJ, Nickerson DA, Oetting WS, Pacanowski M, Pratt VM, Relling MV, Roberts A, Rubinstein WS, Sangkuhl K, Schwab M, Scott SA, Sim SC, Thirumaran RK, Toji LH, Tyndale R, van Schaik RH, Whirl-Carrillo M, Yeo KJ, Zanger UM. Pharmacogenetic Allele Nomenclature: International Workgroup Recommendations for Test Result Reporting. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2015 Oct 19. doi: 10.1002/cpt.280. PMID:26479518

Krupska I, Bruford E, Chaqour B. Eyeing the Cyr61/CTGF/NOV (CCN) group of genes in development and diseases: highlights of their structural likenesses and functional dissimilarities. Hum Genomics 2015 Sep 23; 9(1):24. PMID:26395334 PMCID:PMC4579636

Bruford E, Lane L, Harrow J.  Devising a consensus framework for validation of novel human coding loci. J Proteome Res. 2015 Oct 7 [Epub ahead of print]  PMID:26367542 PMCID:PMC4765950

Smedley D, Haider S, Durinck S, Pandini L, Provero P, ... Gray K, ... Kasprzyk A. The BioMart community portal: an innovative alternative to large, centralized data repositories. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Jul 1;43(W1):W589-98. PMID:25897122 PMCID:PMC4489294

Kubagawa H, Carroll MC, Jacob CO, Lang KS, Lee KH, Mak T, McAndrews M ... Seal R, Wang JY, Wiestner A, Coligan JE. Nomenclature of Toso, Fas Apoptosis Inhibitory Molecule 3, and IgM FcR. J Immunol. 2015 May 1;194(9):4055-7. PMID:25888699

Hamann J, Aust G, Arac D, Engel F...Wright MW, Xu L, Langenhan T, Schioth H. International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. XCIV. Adhesion G Protein-Coupled Receptors. Pharmacol Rev 2015 67:338-367. PMID:25713288 PMCID:PMC4394687

Gray KA, Yates B, Seal RL, Wright MW, Bruford EA. Genenames.org: the HGNC resources in 2015. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Jan;43(Database issue):D1079-85. PMID:25361968 PMCID:PMC4383909

The RNAcentral Consortium (inc. Bruford, E and Wright, M). RNAcentral: An international database of ncRNA sequences. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Jan;43(Database issue):D123-9. PMID:25352543 PMCID:PMC4384043

Wright MW. A short guide to long non-coding RNA gene nomenclature. Hum Genomics. 2014 Apr 9;8(1):7. PMID:24716852 PMCID:PMC4021045

Macarthur JA, Morales J, Tully RE, Astashyn A, Gil L, Bruford EA, Larsson P, Flicek P, Dalgleish R, Maglott DR, Cunningham F. Locus Reference Genomic: reference sequences for the reporting of clinically relevant sequence variants. Nucleic Acids Res. 2014 Jan 1;42(1):D873-8 PMID:24285302 PMCID:PMC3965024

Heit C, Jackson BC, McAndrews M, Wright MW, Thompson DC, Silverman GA, Nebert DW, Vasiliou V. Update of the human and mouse SERPIN gene superfamily.  Hum Genomics. 2013 Oct 30;7:22. PMID:24172014 PMCID:PMC3880077

Dhanoa BS, Cogliati T, Satish AG, Bruford EA, Friedman JS. Update on the Kelch-like (KLHL) gene family.  Hum Genomics. 2013 May 15;7(1):13. PMID:23676014 PMCID:PMC3658946

Seal RL, Wright MW, Gray KA, Bruford EA. Vive la difference: naming structural variants in the human reference genome.  Hum Genomics. 2013 May 1;7(1):12. PMID:23634723 PMCID:PMC3648363

Hediger MA, Clémençon B, Burrier RE, Bruford EA. The ABCs of membrane transporters in health and disease (SLC series): introduction.
Mol Aspects Med. 2013 Apr-Jun;34(2-3):95-107. PMID:23506860 PMCID:PMC3853582

Bögershausen N, Bruford E, Wollnik B. Skirting the pitfalls: a clear-cut nomenclature for H3K4 methyltransferases.  Clin Genet. 2013 Mar 83(3): 212-4. PMID:23130995 PMCID:PMC3597981

Gray KA, Daugherty LC, Gordon SM, Seal RL, Wright MW, Bruford EA. Genenames.org: the HGNC resources in 2013.  Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Jan 1;41(D1):D545-52. PMID:23161694 PMCID:PMC3531211

Mpamhanga CP, Sharman JL, Harmar AJ; IUPHAR Nomenclature Committee (inc. Wright MW). How to use the IUPHAR receptor database to navigate pharmacological data. Methods Mol Biol. 2012;897:15-29. PMID:22674159 

Daugherty LC, Seal RL, Wright MW, Bruford EA. Gene family matters: expanding the HGNC resource. Hum Genomics. 2012; 6:4. PMID:23245209 PMCID:PMC3437568

Klionsky DJ, Bruford EA, Cherry JM, Hodgkin J, Laulederkind SJ, Singer AG. In the beginning there was babble... Autophagy. 2012 Aug 1;8(8). PMID:22836666 PMCID:PMC3625114

Dessimoz C, Gabaldon T, Roose DS, Sonnhammer EL, Herrero J; Quest for Orthologs Consortium (inc. Bruford  E). Toward community standards in the quest for orthologs.  Bioinformatics. 2012 Mar 15;28(6):900-4. PMID:22332236  PMCID:PMC3307119

Gong H, Zhou H, McKenzie GW, Yu Z, Clerens S, Dyer JM, Plowman JE, Wright MW, Arora R, Bawden CS, Chen Y, Li J, Hickford JG. An Updated Nomenclature for Keratin-Associated Proteins (KAPs). Int J Biol Sci. 2012;8(2):258-64. Epub 2012 Jan 12. PMID:22298953  PMCID:PMC3269608

Jackson BC, Thompson DC, Wright MW, McAndrews M, Bernard A, Nebert DW, Vasiliou V. Update of the human secretoglobin (SCGB) gene superfamily and an example of 'evolutionary bloom' of androgen-binding protein genes within the mouse Scgb gene superfamily. Hum Genomics. 2011 Oct 1;5(6):691-702. PMID: 22155607 PMCID:PMC3251818

Guberman JM, Ai J, Arnaiz O, Baran J, Blake A, Baldock R, Chelala C, Croft D, Cros A, Cutts RJ, Di Génova A, Forbes S, Fujisawa T, Gadaleta E, Goodstein DM, Gundem G, Haggarty B, Haider S, Hall M, Harris T, Haw R, Hu S, Hubbard S, Hsu J, Iyer V, Jones P, Katayama T, Kinsella R, Kong L, Lawson D, Liang Y, Lopez-Bigas N, Luo J, Lush M, Mason J, Moreews F, Ndegwa N, Oakley D, Perez-Llamas C, Primig M, Rivkin E, Rosanoff S, Shepherd R, Simon R, Skarnes B, Smedley D, Sperling L, Spooner W, Stevenson P, Stone K, Teague J, Wang J, Wang J, Whitty B, Wong DT, Wong-Erasmus M, Yao L, Youens-Clark K, Yung C, Zhang J, Kasprzyk A. BioMart Central Portal: an open database network for the biological community.  Database 2011 Sep 18. 2011:bar041. PMID:21930507 PMCID:PMC3263598 

Bateman A, Agrawal S, Birney E, Bruford EA, Bujnicki JM, Cochrane G, Cole JR, Dinger ME, Enright AJ, Gardner PP, Gautheret D, Griffiths-Jones S, Harrow J, Herrero J, Holmes IH, Huang HD, Kelly KA, Kersey P, Kozomara A, Lowe TM, Marz M, Moxon S, Pruitt KD, Samuelsson T, Stadler PF, Vilella AJ, Vogel JH, Williams KP, Wright MW, Zwieb C. RNAcentral: A vision for an international database of RNA sequences. RNA. 2011 Sep 22. PMID:21940779 PMCID:PMC3198587 

Bingle CD, Seal RL, Craven CJ. Systematic nomenclature for the PLUNC/PSP/BSP30/SMGB proteins as a subfamily of the BPI fold-containing superfamily. Biochem Soc Trans. 2011 Aug 1;39(4):977-83. PMID:21787333 PMCID:PMC319684 

Mayer J, Blomberg J, Seal RL. A revised nomenclature for transcribed human endogenous retroviral loci. Mob DNA. 2011 May 4;2(1):7. PMID:21542922 PMCID:PMC311391  

Wright MW, Bruford EA. Naming 'junk': Human non-protein coding RNA (ncRNA) gene nomenclature. Hum Genomics. 2011 Jan 1;5(2):90-8. PMID:21296742 PMCID:PMC3051107 

Seal RL, Gordon SM, Lush MJ, Wright MW, Bruford EA. genenames.org: the HGNC resources in 2011.  Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Jan;39(Database issue):D519-9. PMID:20929869 PMCID:PMC301377  

Holmes RS, Wright MW, Laulederkind SJ, Cox LA, Hosokawa M, Imai T, Ishibashi S, Lehner R, Miyazaki M, Perkins EJ, Potter PM, Redinbo MR, Robert J, Satoh T, Yamashita T, Yan B, Yokoi T, Zechner R, Maltais LJ. Recommended nomenclature for five mammalian carboxylesterase gene families: human, mouse, and rat genes and proteins. Mamm Genome. 2010 Oct; 21(9-10):427-41. PMID:20931200 PMCID:PMC3127206 

Bruford, EA. Highlights of the 'gene nomenclature across species' meeting. Hum Genomics. 2010 Feb;4(3):213-7. PMID:20368143 PMCID:PMC2865588  

2000 - 2009

Persson B, Kallberg Y, Bray JE, Bruford E, Dellaporta SL, Favia AD, Duarte RG, Jörnvall H, Kavanagh KL, Kedishvili N, Kisiela M, Maser E, Mindnich R, Orchard S, Penning TM, Thornton JM, Adamski J, Oppermann U. The SDR (short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase and related enzymes) nomenclature initiative. Chem Biol Interact. 2009 Mar 16;178(1-3):94-8. PMID:19027726 PMCID:PMC2896744  

Manjunath P, Lefebvre J, Jois PS, Fan J, Wright MW. New Nomenclature for Mammalian BSP Genes. Biol Reprod. 2009 Mar;80(3):394-7. PMID:18923155 PMCID:PMC2844493

Harmar AJ, Hills RA, Rosser EM, Jones M, Buneman OP, Dunbar DR, Greenhill SD, Hale VA, Sharman JL, Bonner TI, Catterall WA, Davenport AP, Delagrange P, Dollery CT, Foord SM, Gutman GA, Laudet V, Neubig RR, Ohlstein EH, Olsen RW, Peters J, Pin JP, Ruffolo RR, Searls DB, Wright MW, Spedding M. IUPHAR-DB: the IUPHAR database of G protein-coupled receptors and ion channels. Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 Jan;37(Database issue):D680-5. PMID:18948278 PMCID:PMC2686540 

Kampinga HH, Hageman J, Vos MJ, Kubota H, Tanguay RM, Bruford EA, Cheetham ME, Chen B, Hightower LE. Guidelines for the nomenclature of the human heat shock proteins. Cell Stress Chaperones. 2009 Jan;14(1):105-11. PMID:18663603 PMCID:PMC2673902  

Kahn RA, Bruford E, Inoue H, Logsdon JM Jr, Nie Z, Premont RT, Randazzo PA, Satake M, Theibert AB, Zapp ML, Cassel D. Consensus nomenclature for the human ArfGAP domain-containing proteins. J Cell Biol. 2008 Sep 22;182(6):1039-44. PMID:18809720 PMCID:PMC2542466  

Heisterkamp N, Groffen J, Warburton D, Sneddon TP. The human gamma-glutamyltransferase gene family. Hum Genet. 2008 May;123(4):321-32. PMID:18357469 PDF

Ting JP, Lovering RC, Alnemri ES, Bertin J, Boss JM, Davis BK, Flavell RA, Girardin SE, Godzik A, Harton JA, Hoffman HM, Hugot JP, Inohara N, Mackenzie A, Maltais LJ, Nunez G, Ogura Y, Otten LA, Philpott D, Reed JC, Reith W, Schreiber S, Steimle V, Ward PA. The NLR gene family: a standard nomenclature. Immunity. 2008 Mar;28(3):285-7. PMID:18341998 PMCID:PMC2630772 

Bruford EA, Lush MJ, Wright MW, Sneddon TP, Povey S, Birney E. The HGNC Database in 2008: a resource for the human genome.. Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Jan;36(Database issue):D445-8. PMID:17984084 PMCID:PMC2238870 

Holland PW, Booth HA and Bruford EA. Classification and nomenclature of all human homeobox genes. BMC Biol. 2007 Oct 26;5(1):47 PMID:17963489 PMCID:PMC2211742 

Davies KJ, ..., Bruford EA, Povey S, et al. Renaming the DSCR1/Adapt78 gene family as RCAN: regulators of calcineurin. FASEB J. 2007 Oct;21(12):3023-8. PMID:17595344 PDF

Khodiyar VK, Maltais LJ, Sneddon KM, ..., Povey S and Lovering RC. A revised nomenclature for the human and rodent alpha-tubulin gene family. Genomics. 2007 Aug;90(2):285-9. PMID:17543498 PDF

Brown SJ, ..., Lovering RC and Byrne C. Rodent Lce Gene Clusters; New Nomenclature, Gene Organization, and Divergence of Human and Rodent Genes. J Invest Dermatol. 2007 Jul;127(7):1782-6. PMID:17410201 PDF

Eyre TA, Wright MW, Lush MJ and Bruford EA. HCOP: a searchable database of human orthology predictions. Brief Bioinform. 2007 Jan;8(1):2-5. PMID:16951416

Marenholz I, Lovering RC and Heizmann CW. An update of the S100 nomenclature. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2006 Nov;1763(11):1282-3. PMID:16938360 PDF

Schweizer J, ... and Wright MW. New consensus nomenclature for mammalian keratins. J Cell Biol. Jul 17;174(2):169-74. PMID:16831889 PDF

Gregory SG, ... Lush MJ, et al. The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1. Nature. 2006 May 18;441(7091):315-321. PMID:16710414 PDF

Maltais LJ, Lovering RC, et al. New nomenclature for Fc receptor-like molecules. Nat Immunol. 2006 May;7(5):431-2. PMID:16622424 PDF

Muzny DM, ... Wright MW, et al. The DNA sequence, annotation and analysis of human chromosome 3. Nature. 2006 Apr 27;440(7088):1194-8. PMID:16641997 PDF

Zody MC, ... Khodiyar VK, et al. DNA sequence of human chromosome 17 and analysis of rearrangement in the human lineage. Nature. 2006 Apr 20;440(7087):1045-9. PMID:16625196 PDF

Zody MC, ... Sneddon KMB, et al. Analysis of the DNA sequence and duplication history of human chromosome 15. Nature. 2006 Mar 30;440(7084):671-5. PMID:16572171 PDF

Taylor TD, ... Bruford EA, et al. Human chromosome 11 DNA sequence and analysis including novel gene identification. Nature. 2006 Mar 23;440(7083):497-500. PMID:16554811

Scherer SE, ... Lovering RC, et al. The finished DNA sequence of human chromosome 12. Nature. 2006 Mar 16;440(7082):3846-351. PMID:16541075 PDF

Kahn RA, ..., Lovering RC, et al. Nomenclature for the human Arf family of GTP-binding proteins: ARF, ARL, and SAR proteins. J Cell Biol. 2006 Feb 27;172(5):645-50. PMID:16505163 PDF

Wright MW and Bruford EA. Human and orthologous gene nomenclature. Gene. 2006 Mar 15;369:1-6. Epub 2006 Jan 23. PMID:16431039 PDF

Nusbaum C, ... Sneddon TP, et al. DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 8. Nature. 2006 Jan 19;439(7074):331-335. PMID:16421571 PDF

Eyre TA, Ducluzeau F, Sneddon TP, Povey S, Bruford EA and Lush MJ. The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Database, 2006 updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 2006 Jan 1;34(Database issue):D319-21. PMID:16381876 PDF

Wright MW, Eyre TA, Lush MJ, Povey S and Bruford EA. HCOP: The HGNC Comparison of Orthology Predictions Search Tool. Mamm Genome. 2005 Nov; 16(11):827-828. PMID:16284797 PDF

Chen B, ..., Bruford E and Monteiro A. The HSP90 family of genes in the human genome: Insights into their divergence and evolution. Genomics. 2005 Oct 31 [Epub ahead of print]. PMID:16269234 PDF

Nusbaum C, ... Wain HM, et al. DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 18. Nature. 2005 Sep 22;437(7058):551-5. PMID:16177791 PDF

Wilsker D, Probst L, Wain HM, et al. Nomenclature of the ARID family of DNA-binding proteins. Genomics. 2005 Aug; 86(2):242-51. PMID:15922553 PDF

Hunt MC, ..., Wright M, et al. A revised nomenclature for mammalian acyl-CoA thioesterases/hydrolases. J Lipid Res. 2005 Sep;46(9):2029-32. PMID:16103133 PDF

Schijvenaars BJ, ..., Wain HM and Kors JA. Thesaurus-based disambiguation of gene symbols. BMC Bioinformatics. 2005 Jun 16; 6(1):149. PMID:15958172 PDF

Suske G, Bruford E and Philipsen S. Mammalian SP/KLF transcription factors: Bring in the family. Genomics. 2005 May; 85(5):551-6. PMID:15820306 PDF

Ross MT, ... Bruford EA, et al. The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome. Nature. 2005 Mar 17; 434(7031):325-37. PMID:15772651 PDF

Horton R, ..., Lovering RC, Bruford EA, Khodiyar VK, Lush MJ, Povey S, Talbot CC Jr, Wright MW, Wain HM, et al. Gene map of the extended human MHC. Nat Rev Genet. 2004 Dec; 5(12):889-99. PMID:15573121 PDF

Jin J, ... Lovering RC, et al. Systematic analysis and nomenclature of mammalian F-box proteins. Genes Dev. 2004 Nov 1;18(21):2573-80. PMID:15520277 PDF

Mashek DG, ... Khodiyar V, et al. Revised nomenclature for the long chain mammalian acyl-CoA synthetase gene family. J Lipid Res. 2004 Aug 1. PMID:15292367 PDF

Deloukas P, ... Lovering RC, et al. The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 10. Nature 2004 May 27;429(6990):375-81. PMID:15164054 PDF

Humphray SJ, ... Povey S, et al. DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 9. Nature. 2004 May 27;429(6990):369-74. PMID:15164053 PDF

Imanishi T, ... Bruford E, et al. Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones. PLoS Biol. 2004 Jun;2(6):e162. Epub 2004 Apr 20. PMID:15103394 PDF

Dunham A, ... Wright MW, et al. The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 13. Nature. 2004 Apr 1;428(6982):522-8. PMID:15057823 PDF

Hediger MA, ... and Bruford EA. The ABCs of solute carriers: physiological, pathological and therapeutic implications of human membrane transport proteins Introduction. Pflugers Arch. 2004 Feb;447(5):465-8. Epub 2003 Nov 18. PMID:14624363 PDF

Nelson DR, ..., Wain HM and Nebert DW. Comparison of cytochrome P450 (CYP) genes from the mouse and human genomes, including nomenclature recommendations for genes, pseudogenes and alternative-splice variants. Pharmacogenetics. 2004 Jan;14(1):1-18. PMID:15128046 PDF

Wain HM, Lush MJ, Ducluzeau F, Khodiyar VK and Povey S. Genew: the Human Gene Nomenclature Database, 2004 updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jan 1;32 Database issue:D255-7. PMID:14681406 PDF

Smith AN, Lovering RC, Futai M, Takeda J, Brown D and Karet FE. Revised nomenclature for mammalian vacuolar-type H+ -ATPase subunit genes. Mol Cell. 2003 Oct;12(4):801-3. PMID:14580332 PDF

Marsh SG, Parham P, Dupont B, Geraghty DE, Trowsdale J, Middleton D, Vilches C, Carrington M, Witt C, Guethlein LA, Shilling H, Garcia CA, Hsu KC and Wain H. Killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) nomenclature report, 2002. Tissue Antigens. 2003 Jul;62(1):79-86. PMID:12859599 PDF

Marsh SG, Parham P, Dupont B, Geraghty DE, Trowsdale J, Middleton D, Vilches C, Carrington M, Witt C, Guethlein LA, Shilling H, Garcia CA, Hsu KC and Wain H. Killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) nomenclature report, 2002. Immunogenetics. 2003 Jul;55(4):220-6. Epub 2003 Jun 28. PMID:12838378 PDF

Marsh SG, Parham P, Dupont B, Geraghty DE, Trowsdale J, Middleton D, Vilches C, Carrington M, Witt C, Guethlein LA, Shilling H, Garcia CA, Hsu KC and Wain H. Killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) nomenclature report, 2002. Eur J Immunogenetics. 2003 Jun;30(3):229-34. PMID:12787002 PDF

Marsh SG, Parham P, Dupont B, Geraghty DE, Trowsdale J, Middleton D, Vilches C, Carrington M, Witt C, Guethlein LA, Shilling H, Garcia CA, Hsu KC and Wain H.  Killer-cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptor (KIR) Nomenclature Report, 2002. Hum Immunol. 2003 Jun;64(6):648-54. PMID:12770798 PDF

Abdelhaleem M, Maltais L and Wain H. The human DDX and DHX gene families of putative RNA helicases. Genomics. 2003 Jun;81(6):618-22. PMID:12782131 PDF

Wain H, Povey S and Maltais L. Human and Mouse Gene Nomenclature. 2002  Current Protocols in Human Genetics. Appendix A.1C.1-A.1C.11, Supplement 35.   Eds: Nicholas C. Dracopoli, Jonathan L. Haines, Bruce R. Korf, Donald T. Moir, Cynthia C. Morton, Christine E. Seidman, J. G. Seidman, Douglas R. Smith. Wiley.

Povey S and Wain H. Smelling of roses? Genome Biol. 2002;3(6) PMID:12093369 PDF

Povey S. Community Nomenclature: Standardized Gene Symbols. Genomics. 2002 Apr:79(4):463-463. DOI:10.1006 PDF

Wain HM, Lovering RC, Bruford EA, Lush MJ, Wright MW and Povey S. Guidelines for Human Gene Nomenclature. Genomics. 2002 Apr;79(4):464-70. PMID:11944974 PDF

Montell C, ... Bruford EA, et al. A unified nomenclature for the superfamily of TRP cation channels. Mol Cell. 2002 Feb;9(2):229-31. PMID:11864597 PDF

Wain HM, Lush M, Ducluzeau, F, and Povey S. Genew: The Human Nomenclature Database. Nucleic Acids Res. 2002 Jan 1;30(1):169-71. PMID:11752283 PDF

Bradley J, et al. Nomenclature for Ion Channel Subunits. Science. 2001 Dec 7;294(5549):2095-6. PMID:11764791 Dr Bruford is a co-signatory. PDF

Burgers PM, ... Bruford E, et al. Eukaryotic DNA polymerases: proposal for a revised nomenclature. J Biol Chem. 2001 Nov 23;276(47):43487-90. PMID:11579108 PDF

Povey S, Lovering R, Bruford E, Wright M, Lush M and Wain HM. The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC). Hum Genet. 2001 Dec;109(6):678-80. Epub 2001 Oct 24. PMID:11810281 PDF

Diamandis EP, Yousef GM, Clements J, Ashworth LK, Yoshida S, Egelrud T, Nelson PS,  Shiosaka S, Little S, Lilja H, Stenman UH, Rittenhouse HG and Wain H. New nomenclature for the human tissue kallikrein gene family. Clin Chem. 2000 46(11):1855-8. PMID:11067830 PDF

Wain HM, Bruford E, Duncanson A, Lovering R and Povey S. GUEST EDITORIAL: Nomenclature: Genes, Weights and Measures, Animals, Elements, and Planets.  Radiation Research. 2000;154(1):1-2. PDF

Ishikawa T, Allikmets R, Dean M, Higgins C, Ling V and Wain HM. New nomenclature of human ABC transporter genes Xenobiotics, Metabolism and Disposition. 2000;15:8-19.

Wain HM, et al.Hemochromatosis gene nomenclature. Am J Med Genet. 2000 Jul 3;93(1):77 PMID:10861687 PDF

Glusman G, Bahar A, Sharon D, Pilpel Y, White J and Lancet D. The olfactory receptor gene superfamily: data mining, classification, and nomenclature.  Mamm Genome. 2000 Nov;11(11):1016-23. PMID:11063259 PDF

1990 - 1999

White J, et al. Report of the Second International Nomenclature Workshop. Genomics. 1999 Dec 1;62(2):320-3. PMID:10610731 PDF

White J, et al. Promoting a standard nomenclature for genes and proteins (letter). Nature. 1999 Nov 25;402(6760):347. PMID:10586862 PDF

Wain HM, et al. The changing challenges of nomenclature. Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1999;86(2):162-4. PMID:10545710

White J, et al. Reply to Genetics without frontiers (letter). Nat Genet. 1998 20(4):330- 331 PDF

White J, et al.Networking nomenclature. Nat Genet. 1998 Mar;18(3):209. PMID:9500537 PDF

White J, et al. An increasingly urgent need for standardized gene nomenclature Nat Genet. Feb 1998

Antonarakis SE. Recommendations for a nomenclature system for human gene mutations. Nomenclature Working Group. Hum Mutat. 1998; 11(1):1-3. PMID:9450896 PDF

Povey S, et al. Problems of nomenclature. Nature 1997 Nov 27; 390(6658):329. PMID:9389465 PDF

White JA, et al. Guidelines for human gene nomenclature (1997). HUGO Nomenclature Committee. Genomics 1997 Oct 15; 45(2): 468-471. PMID:9344684 PDF

Blake JA, et al. Report from the International Nomenclature Workshop. Genomics. 1997 Oct 15; 45(2): 464-468. PMID:9344683 PDF

McAlpine P. Genetic nomenclature guide. Human. Trends Genet. 1995 Mar (suppl.): 39-42. PMID:7660472

McAlpine PJ, et al. What's in a name? Nature. 1990 Aug 16; 346(6285): 616. PMID:2385290 PDF

McAlpine PJ, et al. Nomenclature for human homeobox genes. Genomics. 1990 Jul; 7(3): 460. PMID:1973146 PDF

McAlpine PJ, et al. The 1990 catalog of mapped genes and report of the nomenclature committee. Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1990;55(1-4):5-76.  PMID:1981504

1978 - 1989

McAlpine PJ, et al. Report of the nomenclature committee and the 1989 catalog of mapped genes. Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1989 51(1-4):13-66.  PMID:2791653

McAlpine PJ, et al. The 1988 catalog of mapped genes and report of the nomenclature committee. Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1988 49(1-3):4-38. PMID:3203547

McAlpine PJ, et al. The 1987 Catalog of mapped genes and report of the nomenclature committee. Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1987 46(1-4):29-101. PMID:3507279

Shows TB, et al. Guidelines for human gene nomenclature. An international system for human gene nomenclature (ISGN, 1987). Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1987 46(1-4):11-28. PMID:3507270 PDF

McAlpine PJ, et al. The 1985 Catalog of Mapped Genes and report of the Nomenclature Committee. Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1985 40(1-4):8-66. PMID:3864604

Shows TB, et al. The 1983 catalogue of mapped human genetic markers and report of the Nomenclature Committee. Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1984 37(1-4):340-93. PMID:6690232

Shows TB, et al. The 1981 catalogue of assigned human genetic markers and report of the nomenclature committee.  Birth Defects Orig Artic Ser. 1982 18(2):221-45. PMID:7159708

Shows TB, et al. The 1981 catalogue of assigned human genetic markers and report of the nomenclature committee. Oslo Conference (1981): Sixth International Workshop on Human Gene Mapping. Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1982 32(1-4):221-45. PMID:7140365

Shows TB, et al. International System for Human Gene Nomenclature (1979) ISGN (1979). Birth Defects Orig Artic Ser. 1980 15(11):96-116. PMID:7213958

Shows TB, et al. International system for human gene nomenclature (1979) ISGN (1979). Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1979 25(1-4):96-116. PMID:295268

Shows TB, et al. The catalog of human genes and chromosome assignments. A report on human genetic  nomenclature and genes that have been mapped in man.  Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1978 22(1-6):132-45. PMID:752466