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HGNC Specialist Advisors

We welcome advice from experts in particular areas of biology. The following list includes some of those who already advise the committee, and recommend appropriate new gene symbols. Please email any suggestions to hgnc@genenames.org

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Stem Symbol/Topic Advisors
ABC ATP-binding cassettes 
Dr Victor Ling
BC Cancer Research Centre,  BC Cancer Agency,  Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,  University of British Columbia,  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Dr Toshihisa Ishikawa
Omics Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan
Dr Michael Dean 
Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, NCI, Frederick, MD, USA  
Dr Rando Allikmets
Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
ADAM ADAM metallopeptidase domain
Dr Judith M. White
Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia, Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA, USA  
White Lab Table of the ADAMs
ADAMTS ADAM metallopeptidase with thrombospondin type 1 motif
Dr Suneel S. Apte
Department of Biomedical Engineering,  Lerner Research Institute  Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH,  USA
AKR Aldo-keto reductases
Dr Trevor M Penning
Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Aldo-Keto Reductase (AKR) Superfamily Homepage
ALDH Aldehyde dehydrogenases
Dr Vasilis Vasiliou
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, USA
www.aldh.org
ALOX Arachidonate lipoxygenases 
Dr Colin D. Funk
Department of Biochemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Dr Alan R. Brash
Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
ANXA Annexins 
Dr Reginald Morgan
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain 
AQP Aquaporins 
Dr Peter Agre
Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School  of Medicine,  Baltimore,  MD, USA 
ARFGAP Arf GTPase activating protein (ArfGAP) family
Dr Richard A Kahn
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
bloodgroup Blood group determination genes
Dr Geoff Daniels
International Society for Blood Transfusion Committee on Terminology for Red Cell Surface Antigens, Bristol Institute for Transfusion Sciences, Bristol, UK
Committee on Terminology for Red Cell Surface Antigens
BPIF

BPI fold containing family
Dr Colin Bingle
Department of Infection and Immunity, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr Jeremy Craven
Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, UK

CDH Cadherin superfamily
Dr Frans van Roy
Paco Hulpiau
Department of Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB and Ghent University, Ghent (Zwijnaarde), Belgium
CA Carbonic anhydrases
Dr David Hewett-Emmett
Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA 
CACN Calcium channels 
Dr Philippe Lory 
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Département de Physiologie, CNRS UMR5203 - INSERM U661 - Universités de Montpellier I & II, Montpellier, France
CASP Caspases
Dr Emad Alnemri
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Dr Donald Nicholson
Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ, USA
Dr Guy Salvesen
Program in Apoptosis and Cell Death Research, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA, USA
Dr Nancy Thornberry
Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey
Dr Junying Yuan
Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
CCL
CCR
Chemokines
Dr Robin Thorpe 
IUIS Chemokine Nomenclature Subcommittee, Biotherapeutics Group, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, UK
CD CD molecules
Dr Laurence Boumsell
IUIS CD Nomenclature Subcommittee, INSERM U659, Faculté de Médecine, Creteil, France
CLDN Claudins 
Dr Jeffrey Keen 
Molecular Medicine Unit, Clinical Science Building, St James's Hospital, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 
CLIC Chloride intracellular channels
Dr Mark Berryman
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Athens, OH, USA
Clinical Advisor
Clinical Advisor
Dr Roberta A. Pagon
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Principal Investigator, GeneTests, Editor-in-Chief, GeneReviews
CLK CDC-like kinases 
Dr Leonard J. Rabinow
Laboratoire de Signalisation, Développement et Cancer, Université Paris XI, Orsay Cedex, France
COLEC Collectins 
Dr Kurt Drickamer 
Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK
complement Complement system genes
Dr Robert B. Sim
IUIS complement subcommittee, MRC Immunochemistry Unit, Department of Biochemistry, Oxford, UK
CYB Cytochrome b
Dr Han Asard 
Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
CYP Cytochrome P450 
Dr David R. Nelson
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
Dr Dan Nebert 
Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
DDX
DHX
DEAD- and DEAH-boxes
Dr Mohamed Abdelhaleem
Head, Division of Haematopathology, Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
DN Dyneins (axonemal)
Dr Heymut Omran 
Oberarzt, Universitaets-Kinderklinik, Mathildenstr. 1, 79106 Freiburg, Deutschland
DNAJ (Hsp40) family DnaJ (Hsp40) family
Dr Mike Cheetham 
Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Division of Pathology, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK
Dr Kenzo Ohtsuka
Laboratory of Cell & Stress Biology, Department of Environmental Biology, College of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan
DYN Dyneins (cytoplasmic)
Dr Elizabeth Fisher
Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Cytoplasmic dynein nomenclature
Genetic Analysis of the Cytoplasmic Dynein Subunit Families
 Enzyme Nomenclature
Enzyme Nomenclature
IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature 
EXPASY Enzyme nomenclature database 
FANC Fanconi anemia,complementation groups
Prof. Hans Joenje 
Department of Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam
FOX Forkhead box genes
Dr Daniel E. Martínez 
Department of Biology, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, USA
GJ Gap junction proteins (connexins)
Dr Thomas W. White
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
GPCR

G-protein coupled receptors
NC-IUPHAR The International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology Committee
GRAC Guide to Receptors and Channels, The British Pharmacological Society

Histones Histones
Dr David Landsman
Chief, Computational Biology Branch, NCBI, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
HLA Histocompatibility complex
Dr Steven G. E. Marsh
Anthony Nolan Research Institute, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK 
IMGT/HLA Database
High mobility group High mobility group
Dr Michael Bustin
Chief, Protein Section, Laboratory of Metabolism, CCR, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA  
Dr David Landsman
Chief, Computational Biology Branch, NCBI, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Homeobox gene family Homeobox
Dr Peter W H Holland
Linacre Professor of Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 
 Immunodeficiences Immunodeficiencies
Dr Jennifer M. Puck
Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA 
Dr Hans D. Ochs
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA , USA 
Dr C. I. Edvard Smith
Clinical Research Center, Karolinska Institutet at Novum, Huddinge, Sweden
 Immunological Nomenclature
Immunological Nomenclature
Laurence Boumsell
IUIS Nomenclature Committee
IFN Interferons
Dr Erik Lundgren 
ISICR Nomenclature Committee, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden 
IG Immunoglobulins
Dr Marie-Paule Lefranc 
Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire, IGH, UPR CNRS 1142, Montpellier, France
IMGT The International ImMunoGeneTics information system®
IL Interleukins and interleukin receptors
Dr John Schrader
IUIS Interleukin Nomenclature Subcommittee. 
Director of The Biomedical Research Centre,University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
IPO
XPO
Importins and Exportins
Dr Dirk Görlich
Department of Cellular Logistics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany 
KCN Potassium channels
Dr Florian Lesage
Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS, and Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France
KIF Kinesins
Dr Nobutaka Hirokawa
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
KIR Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors
Dr Steven G. E. Marsh
Anthony Nolan Research Institute, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK 
Dr Peter Parham 
Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Dr John Trowsdale
Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Dr Mary Carrington 
Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, NCI, Frederick, MD, USA
IPD - KIR Database
KLF Kruppel-like factors
Dr Merlin Crossley
Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia 
KLK Kallikreins
Dr Eleftherios P. Diamandis
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Dr Åke Lundwall
Lund University, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital MAS, S-205 02 Malmö, Sweden
KRT Keratins
Dr Michael A. Rogers
German Cancer Research Center, Research Program 2, Im Neuenheimerfeld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Methyltransferases Methyltransferases
Dr Janusz Bujnicki
Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland
MIR microRNAs
Dr Sam Griffiths-Jones 
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK
miRBase
MRPL
MRPS
Mitochondrial ribosomal proteins
Dr Naoya Kenmochi
Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Japan
MRX X-linked mental retardation 
Dr Ben C.J. Hamel
Department of Human Genetics, University Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands
MUC Mucins 
Dr Dallas Swallow 
Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK
Mucin Group Homepage
Myosin superfamily Myosin superfamily
Dr Richard Cheney
Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Dr Jonathan S. Berg
Curriculum in Neurobiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
ncRNAs (non-protein-coding RNAs)

Long Non-coding RNA (lncRNA)
Dr John S.Mattick
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
lncRNAdb

Micro RNA (miRNA)
Dr Sam Griffiths-Jones
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building,Oxford Road, Manchester, UK
miRBase

Piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA)
Dr Shipra Agrawal
Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology Biotech Park,Bangalore, India
piRNABank

Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) clusters
Dr Andrew Pierce 
University of Kentucky, M arkey Cancer Center, Lexington, KT, USA

Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNA)
Dr Michel J. Weber
Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Eucaryote, CNRS/Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
snoRNABase

U7 RNA and vault RNA (vtRNA)
Dr Peter F. Stadler 
University of Leipzig, Germany

Nuclear receptors
Nuclear receptors
Prof Vincent Laudet
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (IGFL), Lyon, France
NUDT Nudix motif-containing
Dr Alexander G. McLennan
School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, , Liverpool, UK
OR Olfactory receptors
Dr Doron Lancet
Dr Tsviya Olender
Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
OSBP Oxysterol binding proteins
Dr Cynthia J. Jaworski
Laboratory of Retinal Cell and Molecular Biology, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
 Peptidases Peptidases
Dr Alan J Barrett
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK 
Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes
MEROPS - the Peptidase Database
IUBMB EC List for Peptidases
P2R Purinergic receptors
Dr Brian King 
Autonomic Neuroscience Institute, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine (RFHSM), Hampstead, London, UK
PPP1R Protein phosphatase 1, regulatory family
Dr Mathieu Bollen
Division of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
 Protein kinases
Protein kinases
Dr Gerard Manning
Dr Tony Hunter
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, USA
PRMT Protein arginine methyltransferases
Dr Steven Clarke
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dr Mark T. Bedford 
University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Carcinogenesis, Smithville, Texas, USA
PSM Proteasome (prosome, macropain)
Dr Keiji Tanaka
Department of Molecular Oncology, The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
PTP Protein tyrosine phosphatases (including dual specificity phosphatases)
Dr Jannik Andersen  
Merck Sharp & Dohme, Boston, MA, USA
RAB RAB, member RAS oncogene family
Dr Miguel C. Seabra
Cell and Molecular Biology, Division of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK 
RGS Regulator of G-protein signalling
Dr David P. Siderovski 
Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina,  USA
RPL RPS Ribosomal proteins
Dr Naoya Kenmochi
Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Japan
SCGB Secretoglobins
Dr Joerg Klug
Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen, Institut fuer Anatomie und Zellbiologie, D-35385 Giessen, Germany
SC Sodium channels
Dr William A Catterall 
Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195-7280, USA 
SEMA Semaphorins
Dr Alex L. Kolodkin
Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
SERPIN Serine (or cysteine) peptidase inhibitors
Dr Gary A. Silverman
Dept of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and Division of Newborn Medicine, Children's Hospital, Enders 9, Boston, MA, USA
SIGLEC Sialic acid binding Ig-like lectins
Dr Ajit Varki
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and
Director, Glycobiology Research and Training Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA 
SLC Solute carrier superfamily
Dr Matthias A. Hediger
Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
SOX SRY (sex determining region Y)-box
Dr Peter Koopman
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Koopman Laboratory
TBX T-box family
Dr Jeremy Gibson-Brown
Department of Biology, Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA
TNFSF
TNFRSF
Tumor necrosis factor and receptor superfamilies
Dr Carl F. Ware
Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
TR T cell receptors
Dr Marie-Paule Lefranc 
Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire  LIGM, UPR CNRS 1142, IGH, Montpellier, France
IMGT The International ImMunoGeneTics information system®
TRIM Tripartite motif-containing family
Dr Alexandre Reymond
Center for Integrative Genomics, Genopode building, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
TRP Transient receptor potential cation channels 
Dr Craig Montell
Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Dr Lutz Birnbaumer
Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Dr Veit Flockerzi
Institut für Experimentelle und Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Universität des Saarlandes, Homburg/Saar, Germany
UGT UDP glycosyltransferases
Dr Peter I Mackenzie
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Flinders University School of Medicine, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, SA, Australia
UDP Glucuronosyltransferase Homepage
USP Ubiquitins 
Dr Rohan Baker
Ubiquitin Lab, Molecular Genetics Group, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
WNT WNT wingless-type
Dr Roel Nusse
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dept. of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Beckman Center, Stanford, CA, USA  
The WNT Homepage 
ZDHHC Zinc fingers, DHHC type
Dr Susan Gentleman
Laboratory of Retinal Cell and Molecular Biology, National Eye Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
ZNF Zinc fingers, C2H2 type
Dr Lisa Stubbs
Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL