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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 suggestions and volunteer for particular areas to hgnc@genenames.org

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Stem Symbol Advisors Nomenclature Editor
ABC ATP-binding cassettes 
Victor Ling  Email:vling@bccrc.ca
BC Cancer Research Centre,  BC Cancer Agency,  Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,  University of British Columbia,  Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4L3, Canada
Tel: 604-877-615;  Fax: 604- 877-6150 
Prof. Toshihisa Ishikawa Email:tishikaw@bio.titech.ac.jp
Department of Biomolecular Engineering,  Graduate School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology , 4259 Nagatsuda, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
Tel: +81-45-924-5800;  Fax: +81-45-924-5838 
Dr Michael Dean  Email:dean@ncifcrf.gov
Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, NCI-FCRDC, Bld. 560, Rm. 21-18, Frederick, MD 21702, USA  
Tel: 301-846-5931;  Fax: 301-846-1909 
Professor C.F. Higgins Email:christopher.higgins@csc.mrc.ac.uk
Director, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, The Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK 
Tel: +44 (0)181-383-8249  Fax: +44 (0)181-383-8337 
Rando Allikmets, PhD  Email:rla22@columbia.edu
Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University, Eye Research Addition, 2nd Floor, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
Tel: 212-305-8989 (office),  212-305-8501 (lab);  Fax: 212-305-7014 
 
ADAM ADAM metallopeptidase domain
Dr Judith M. White  Email:jw7g@virginia.edu 
Dept. of Cell Biology, University of Virginia, Health Sciences Center, Box 439, Charlottesville, VA  22908, USA  
Tel: 804-924-2593 (office) 804-924-2009 (lab);  Fax: 804-982-3912
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jw7g/Table_of_the_ADAMs.html
 
ADAMTS ADAM metallopeptidase with thrombospondin type 1 motif
Suneel S. Apte MBBS, DPhil  Email:aptes@bme.ri.ccf.org
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering (ND20),  Lerner Research Institute  Cleveland Clinic Foundation  9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195,  USA
Tel: 216-445-3278 (office), 216-445-3284 (lab);  Fax: 216-445-4383 or 216-444-9198  http://www.lerner.ccf.org/bme/apte/
 
AKR Aldo-keto reductases
Trevor Penning Email:penning@pharm.med.upenn.edu
www.med.upenn.edu/akr
Elspeth Bruford
ALDH Aldehyde dehydrogenases
Vasilis Vasiliou, PhD Email:vasilis.vasiliou@uchsc.edu
Associate Professor of Molecular Toxicology, Director of Toxicology Graduate Program, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC), Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, C-238, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Denver, CO 80262, USA
Tel: 303 315 6153;  Fax: 303 315 6281
http://www.aldh.org
Elspeth Bruford
ALOX Arachidonate lipoxygenases 
Colin D. Funk, PhD Email:colin@spirit.gcrc.upenn.edu
Associate Professor, Center for Experimental Therapeutics University of Pennsylvania, Stellar Chance Labs, Rm 805, 422 Curie Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA  
Tel: 215-898-0254 (office), 215-898-0212 (lab);  Fax: (215) 573-9004 
Alan R. Brash, PhD Email:alan.brash@vanderbilt.edu
Department of Pharmacology  Vanderbilt University Medical Center  Nashville, TN 37232-6602, USA
Tel: 615-343-4495;  Fax: 615-322-4707 
Matt Wright
ANXA Annexins 
Dr Reginald Morgan Email:romorgan@bioquimica.uniovi.es
University of Oviedo Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, E-33006 Oviedo, Spain 
Tel:+34 98 528 5465;  Fax:+34 98 510 3157 
 
AQP Aquaporins 
Dr Peter Agre  Email:pagre@jhmi.edu
Johns Hopkins University School  of Medicine  Department of Biological Chemistry, 420 Physiology Building,  725 North Wolfe Street,  Baltimore,  MD 21205-2185, USA 
Tel: 410-955-7049;  Fax: 410-955-3149 
Matt Wright
bloodgroup Blood group determination
Dr Geoff Daniels Email:geoff.daniels@NBS.NHS.UK
International Society for Blood Transfusion Committee on Terminology for Red Cell Surface Antigens, Bristol Institute for Transfusion Sciences, Bristol, UK
Tel: +44(0)117 991 2116
http://blood.co.uk/ibgrl/ISBT%20Pages/ISBT%20Home.htm
 
CA Carbonic anhydrases
David Hewett-Emmett PhD
Email:David.Hewett-Emmett@uth.tmc.edu
Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, E-517, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, P.O. Box 20186, Houston, TX 77225-0186, USA 
Tel: 713-500-9835;  Fax: 713-500-0900
 
CACN Calcium channels 
Dr Philippe Lory  Email:philippe.lory@igh.cnrs.fr
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Département de Physiologie, CNRS UMR5203 - INSERM U661 - Universités de Montpellier I & II, 141 rue de la cardonille, 34094 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
Tel: 33 (0) 499 61 99 39; Fax: 33 (0) 499 61 99 01
Matt Wright
CASP Caspases
Dr Emad Alnemri Email:E_Alnemri@lac.jci.tju.edu
Dr David Livingstone
Dr Donald Nicholson Email:donald_nicholson@merck.com
Dr Guy Salvesen Email:gsalvesen@ljcrf.edu
Dr Nancy Thornberry Email:nancy@merck.com
Dr Winnie Wong
Dr Junying Yuan Email:jyuan@hms.harvard.edu
 
CCL
CCR

Chemokines
Dr Robin Thorpe 
IUIS Chemokine Nomenclature Subcommittee, Dept of Immunobiology, NIBSC, UK
 
CD Cluster of differentiation
Laurence Boumsell MD PhD Email:boumsell@im3.inserm.fr
IUIS CD Nomenclature Subcommittee, INSERM U659, Faculte de medecine, 8 rue du general Sarrail, 94010-Creteil, France
Tel: +33-1-49-81-35-95
 
CENT Centaurins
Dr Trevor Jackson Email:t.r.jackson@ncl.ac.uk
Physiology & Dermatology, School of Clinical & Laboratory Sciences, Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
Tel: +44 (0)191 222 7177;  Fax: +44 (0)191 222 7094
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/dermatology/texts/trevor.html
Matt Wright
CLDN Claudins 
Dr Jeffrey Keen  Email:t.j.keen@leeds.ac.uk
Molecular Medicine Unit, Clinical Science Building, St James's Hospital, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS9 7TF, UK 
Tel: +44 (0)113 206 4120;  Fax: +44 (0)113 244 4475 
Matt Wright
CLIC Chloride intracellular channels
Mark Berryman  Email:berryman@ohiou.edu
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Irvine Hall-346, Athens, OH 45701, USA
Tel: 740-593-2364;  Fax: 740-597-2778 
Matt Wright
  Clinical Advisor
Roberta A. Pagon, MD Email:bpagon@u.washington.edu
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Principal Investigator, GeneTests, Editor-in-Chief, GeneReviews
http://www.genetests.org
Elspeth Bruford
CLK CDC-like kinases 
Dr Leonard J. Rabinow
Email:Leonard.Rabinow@ibaic.u-psud.fr
Laboratoire de Signalisation, Développement et Cancer, Bâtiment 445, Université Paris XI, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
Tel: 1-69-15-74-65; Fax: 1-69-15-68-02 (from US, prefix: 011-33) 
ALSO: protein kinases, signaling pathways (primarily hedgehog) and mRNA splicing (SR proteins).
Elspeth Bruford
COLEC Collectins 
Dr Kurt Drickamer  Email:kd@glycob.ox.ac.uk
Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road,  Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1865 275727; Fax: +44 (0)1865 275339 
 
complement Complement system
Dr R. B. Sim Email:bob.sim@bioch.ox.ac.uk
IUIS complement subcommittee, MRC Immunochemistry Unit, Department of Biochemistry, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1865 275351; Fax: +44 (0)1865 275729
 
CYB Cytochrome b
Dr Han Asard  Email:hasard2@unl.edu
Dept Biochemistry / Beadle Center, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 1901 Vine Street, Lincoln, NE 68588-0664, USA
Tel: 402-472-4581; Fax: 402-472-7842
Elspeth Bruford
CYP Cytochrome P450 
Dr Dan Nebert  Email:Dan.Nebert@UC.Edu
PO Box 670056, Univ Cincinnati Med Ctr, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0056, USA
Tel: 513-558-0155;  Fax: 513-558-0925 
Directory of P450-containing Systems
Elspeth Bruford
DDX
DHX
DEAD- and DEAH-boxes
Mohamed Abdelhaleem, MD PhD FRCPC Email:mohamed.abdelhaleem@sickkids.ca
Head, Division of Haematopathology, Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
Tel: 416-813-6434;  Fax: 416-813-6257
Elspeth Bruford
DN Dyneins (axonemal)
Dr Heymut Omran  Email:omran@kikli.ukl.uni-freiburg.de
Oberarzt, Universitaets-Kinderklinik, Mathildenstr. 1, 79106 Freiburg, Deutschland 
Tel: Labor: 0761-270-4365 Pforte: 0761-270-4301; Fax: 0761-270-4533
Matt Wright
DNAJ DnaJ (Hsp40) homologs
Dr Mike Cheetham  Email:michael.cheetham@ucl.ac.uk
Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Division of Pathology, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, 11-43 Bath Street, London, EC1V 9EL, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7608 6944;  Fax: +44 (0)20 7608 6862
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioo/research/cheetham.htm
Prof Kenzo Ohtsuka, PhD Email:kohtsuka@isc.chubu.ac.jp
Laboratory of Cell & Stress Biology, Department of Environmental Biology, College of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Chubu University, 1200 Matsumoto-cho, Kasugai, Aichi 487-8501, Japan
Tel: 81-568-51-1111 (ext. 5653);  Fax: 81-568-52-6594
Elspeth Bruford
DYN Dyneins (cytoplasmic)
Elizabeth M. Fisher
Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG, UK
Cytoplasmic dynein nomenclature
Genetic Analysis of the Cytoplasmic Dynein Subunit Families
Matt Wright
  Enzyme Nomenclature
IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature 
http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iubmb/enzyme/
EXPASY Enzyme nomenclature database 
http://us.expasy.org/enzyme/
Elspeth Bruford
Matt Wright
FOX Forkhead box
Dr Daniel E. Martínez  Email:dmartinez@pomona.edu
Department of Biology, Pomona College, 609 N. College Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711-6339, USA
Elspeth Bruford
GJ Gap junction proteins (connexins)
Dr Thomas W. White  Email:thomas.white@sunysb.edu
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, State University of New York, Basic Science Tower, T5-147, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8661, USA
Tel: 631-444-9683;  Fax: 631-444-3432
Elspeth Bruford
GPR G-protein coupled receptors 
No current advisor 
Matt Wright
Histones Histones
David Landsman, PhD Email:landsman@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chief, Computational Biology Branch, NCBI, NLM, NIH,
Building 38A Rm 6N601, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Tel: 301-435-5981; Fax: 301-480-2288

 
HLA HLA 
Dr Steven G. E. Marsh Email:marsh@ebi.ac.uk
Anthony Nolan Research Institute, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, Hampstead, London NW3 2QG, UK 
Tel: +44 (0)20 7284 8321 Fax: +44 (0)20 7284 8331 
http://www.anthonynolan.org.uk/HIG/
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/imgt/hla/
 
HMG High-mobility group
Michael Bustin, PhD Email:bustin@helix.nih.gov
Chief, Protein Section, LM, CCR, NCI, NIH, Bldg 37, Room 2D-21, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Tel: 301-496-5234; Fax: 301-496-8419 
http://home.ccr.cancer.gov/metabolism/bustin/mbccr.htm
David Landsman, PhD Email:landsman@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chief, Computational Biology Branch, NCBI, NLM, NIH,
Building 38A Rm 6N601, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Tel: 301-435-5981; Fax: 301-480-2288
Elspeth Bruford
  Homeobox
Professor Peter W H Holland Email:peter.holland@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Linacre Professor of Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK 
Tel: +44 (0)1865-271185; Fax: +44 (0)1865-271184
Elspeth Bruford
  Immunodeficiencies
Jennifer M. Puck, MD Email:JPuck@mail.nih.gov
Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH Bldg. 49, Rm. 3A14, 49 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-4442, USA 
Tel: 301-402-2194; Fax: 301-402-4929 
Hans D. Ochs MD Email:allgau@u.washington.edu
Professor of Pediatrics Division of Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Box 356320, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195-6320, USA 
Tel: 206 543 3207; Fax: 206 543 3184 
C. I. Edvard Smith Email:edvard.smith@ki.se
Clinical Research Center, Karolinska Institutet at Novum, Halsovagen 7, SE-141 57 Huddinge, Sweden
Tel: +46-8 5858 3651 (office)/ 3653 (lab); Fax: +46-8 5858 3650
Elspeth Bruford
  Immunological Nomenclature
Laurence Boumsell Email:boumsell@im3.inserm.fr 
IUIS Nomenclature Committee
http://www.iuisonline.org/

 
IFN Interferons
Dr Erik Lundgren Erik  Email:Erik.Lundgren@molbiol.umu.se
ISICR Nomenclature Committee, Dept. Molecular Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 UMEÅ, Sweden
Tel: 0046 90 13 35 36; Fax 0046 90 77 14 20
http://www.molbiol.umu.se/forskning/Groups/lundgren/index.html
ALSO: interferon receptors and interferon regulatory factors 
 
IG Immunoglobulins
Professor Marie-Paule Lefranc  Email:lefranc@ligm.igh.cnrs.fr
Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire  LIGM, UPR CNRS 1142, IGH 
141 rue de la Cardonille,  34396 Montpellier, Cedex 5, France
Tel: +33 (0)4 99 61 99 65;  Fax: +33 (0)4 99 61 99 01 
IMGT  The International ImMunoGeneTics information system®
 
IL Interleukins
Dr John Schrader
IUIS Interleukin Nomenclature Subcommittee. 
Director of The Biomedical Research Centre,University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
 
IPO
XPO
Importins and Exportins
Professor Dirk Gorlich Email:dg@zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de
ZMBH, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany 
Tel: +49 6221 54 5884 (office), +49 6221 54 6862 (lab)  Fax: +49 6221 54 5893 
http://www.zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de/Goerlich/
 
KCN Potassium channels
Florian Lesage, PhD  Email:lesage@ipmc.cnrs.fr
Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire -CNRS, 660, route des lucioles - Sophia Antipolis, 06560 Valbonne - France
Tel: 33 (0)4 93 95 77 32; Fax: 33 (0) 93 95 77 02
Matt Wright
KIF Kinesins
Nobutaka Hirokawa, MD, PhD
Email:hirokawa@mail.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Professor and Chairman, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo, 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
Matt Wright
KIR Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors
Steven G. E. Marsh 
Peter Parham 
John Trowsdale
Mary Carrington 
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/kir/
 
KLF Kruppel-like factors
Dr Merlin Crossley Email:M.Crossley@biochem.usyd.edu.au
Dept. Biochemistry, G08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 
Tel: 61 2 9351 2233; Fax: 61 2 9351 4726
Elspeth Bruford
KLK Kallikreins
Eleftherios P.Diamandis MD, PhD, FRCPC Email:ediamandis@mtsinai.on.ca
Head, Section Of Clinical Biochemistry, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, USA
Professor and Head, Division of Clinical Biochemistry, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Canada
Tel: 416-586-8443;  Fax: 416-586-8628
Åke Lundwall, PhD Email:ake.lundwall@med.lu.se
Lund University, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital MAS, S-205 02 Malmö, Sweden
Tel: +46 30 333156; Fax:+46 40 337043

 
KRT Keratins
Dr Michael A. Rogers
Email:m.rogers@dkfz-heidelberg.de
German Cancer Research Center, Research Program 2, 5th Floor, Room 522, Im Neuenheimerfeld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Matt Wright
  Methyltransferases
Dr Janusz Bujnicki Email:iamb@genesilico.pl
Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Trojdena 4, 02-109 Warsaw, Poland
Matt Wright
MIRN microRNA
Sam Griffiths-Jones Email:microrna@sanger.ac.uk
The microRNA Registry 
Matt Wright
MRPL
MRPS
Mitochondrial ribosomal proteins
Naoya Kenmochi, PhD Email:kenmochi@med.miyazaki-u.ac.jp
Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan
Tel/Fax: +81-985-85-9084
 
MRX X-linked mental retardation 
Dr Ben C.J. Hamel Email:b.hamel@antrg.umcn.nl
Department of Human Genetics University Hospital Nijmegen PO Box 9101 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Tel: +24 361 4017; Fax: +24 354 05 88 
Elspeth Bruford
  Mouse Nomenclature
Lois J. Maltais Email:nomen@informatics.jax.org
Tel: 207-288-6429; Fax: 207-288-6132 
Dr Muriel Davisson, Dr Janan Eppig and Dr Judith Blake 
MGD Mouse Nomenclature Committee
International Committee on Standardized Genetic Nomenclature for Mice
Nomenclature News and Announcements
Matt Wright
MUC Mucins 
Professor Dallas Swallow  Email:d.swallow@galton.ucl.ac.uk
EMBL Outstation - Hinxton
European Bioinformatics Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton
Cambridge
CB10 1SD
, UK
Mucin Group Homepage
 
Myosin superfamily
Dr Richard Cheney Email:cheneyr@med.unc.edu
Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7545, USA
Tel: 919-966-1190; Fax: 919-966-6927 
Dr Jonathan Berg
Curriculum in Neurobiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7545, USA
Tel: 919-966-1190; Fax: 919-966-6927 
Elspeth Bruford
Non-coding RNAs
Professor John S. Mattick Email:j.mattick@imb.uq.edu.au
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland,
Brisbane 4072, Australia
Tel: +61-7-3346-2079; Fax: +61-7-3346-2111
RNA-Based Gene Regulation in Eukaryotic Development

Matt Wright
NR Nuclear receptors
Dr Vincent Laudet Email:Vincent.Laudet@ens-lyon.fr
UMR 49 du CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon, Cedex O7, France 
Matt Wright
NUDT Nudix motif-containing
Prof. Alexander G. McLennan PhD FIBiol Email:A.G.Mclennan@liverpool.ac.uk 
School of Biological Sciences, Room 142, Biosciences Building, University of Liverpool, Crown St., Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK.
Tel: (+44) 151 795 4426; Fax: (+44) 151 795 4404
http://www.liv.ac.uk/~agmclen/

Matt Wright
OR Olfactory receptors
Doron Lancet, PhD Email:Doron.Lancet@weizmann.ac.il
Tsviya Olender, PhD Email:lvzvia@bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il
Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Tel: +972-8-9343683; Fax: +972-8-9344487
 
OSBP Oxysterol binding proteins
Cynthia J. Jaworski, PhD Email:Jaworski@helix.nih.gov
LRCMB, NIH, building 6, room 313, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Tel: 301-496-1396;  Fax: 301-402-1883
Matt Wright
  Peptidases
Dr Alan J. Barrett Email:ab9@sanger.ac.uk
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute 
Tel: +44 (0)1223 494735
Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes: http://www.apnet.com/proteo/
MEROPS - the Peptidase Database: http://merops.sanger.ac.uk/
IUBMB EC List for Peptidases:  http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iubmb/enzyme/EC34/
Elspeth Bruford
P2R Purinergic receptors
Dr Brian F. King  Email:b.king@ucl.ac.uk
Autonomic Neuroscience Institute, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine (RFHSM), Floor 1, Rm.721, Rowland Hill Street, Hampstead, London NW3 2PF, UK
Tel: +44 (0)171-794-0500 (x5268); Fax: +44 (0)171-830-2949 
Elspeth Bruford
PADI Peptidyl arginine deiminases
Dr Han Zendman Email:H.Zendman@ncmls.kun.nl
Department of Biochemistry, NWI 161, Autoimmune disease group, NCMLS, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Matt Wright
PPP1R Protein phosphatase 1, regulatory family
Mathieu Bollen Email:Mathieu.Bollen@med.kuleuven.ac.be
Hugo Ceulemans Email:Hugo.Ceulemans@med.kuleuven.ac.be
Matt Wright
  Protein kinases
Gerard Manning PhD
Tony Hunter PhD Email:hunter@salk.edu
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037-1099, USA
Elspeth Bruford
PRMT Protein arginine methyltransferases
Steven Clarke, PhD   Email:clarke@mbi.ucla.edu
UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Paul Boyer Hall 640, Box 951569 (post), 607 Charles E. Young Drive East (courier), Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, USA
Tel: (310) 825-8754; Fax: (310) 825-1968
http://www.biochemistry.ucla.edu/biochem/Faculty/SClarke
Mark T. Bedford, PhD  Email:mtbedford@mdanderson.org
University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Carcinogenesis, 1808 Park Road 1C, Smithville, Texas 78957, USA
Tel: (512) 237-9539; Fax: (512) 237-2475
http://sciencepark.mdanderson.org/bedford
Elspeth Bruford
PSM Proteasome (prosome, macropain)
Dr Keiji Tanaka Email:tanakak@rinshoken.or.jp
Vice-Director & Acting-Head of Department of Molecular Oncology, The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, 3-18-22 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8613, Japan
Tel: +81 3 4463 7592;  Fax: +81 3 3823 2237
 
PTP Protein tyrosine phosphatases (including dual specificity phosphatases)
Dr Jannik Andersen, PhD   Email:andersen@cshl.edu
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, 11724 New York, USA
Tel: 1-516-367-8314
Elspeth Bruford
RAB RAB, member RAS oncogene family
Prof. Miguel C. Seabra Email:m.seabra@imperial.ac.uk
Head, Cell and Molecular Biology, Division of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, Sir Alexander Fleming Bld, Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2AZ, UK 
Tel: +44 (0)20-75943024; Fax: +44 (0)20-75943015
Elspeth Bruford 
RGS Regulator of G-protein signalling
Dr David P. Siderovski  Email:dsiderov@med.unc.edu
Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB#7365, 1106 M.E. Jones Building, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7365, USA
Tel: 919-843-9363; Fax: 919-966-5640
Elspeth Bruford 
RPL
RPS
Ribosomal proteins
Naoya Kenmochi, PhD Email:kenmochi@med.miyazaki-u.ac.jp
Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan
Tel/Fax: +81-985-85-9084
 
SCGB Secretoglobins
Dr Joerg Klug Email:Joerg.Klug@anatomie.med.uni-giessen.de
Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen, Institut fuer Anatomie und Zellbiologie, Aulweg 123, D-35385 Giessen, Germany
Tel: +49 641 99-47033, +49 178 8315372 (Mobile);  Fax: +49 641 99-47029
Matt Wright
SCN Sodium channels
Prof. William A Catterall  Email:wcatt@u.washington.edu
Univ Washington Sch Med, Dept Pharmacology, Box 357280, Seattle, WA 98195-7280, USA 
Tel: 206-543-1925 
Matt Wright
SEMA Semaphorins
Alex L. Kolodkin, PhD  Email:Kolodkin@jhmi.edu
Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,  725 N. Wolfe St.,/813 WBSB,  Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Tel: 410-614-9499 (office) 410-614-9497 (lab); Fax: 410-614-8423 
Matt Wright
SERPIN Serine (or cysteine) peptidase inhibitors
Gary A. Silverman, MD, PhD Email:gsilverman@mail.magee.edu 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School,  Chief, Division of Newborn Medicine, Children's Hospital, Enders 9, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Tel: 617-355-6416;  Fax: 617-355-7677 
Matt Wright
SIGLEC Sialic acid binding Ig-like lectins
Prof. Ajit Varki Email:varkiadmin@ucsd.edu 
Professor of Medicine & Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Director, Glycobiology Research and Training Center (GRTC: http://grtc.ucsd.edu
CMM-East Building, Room 1065, Mail Code #0687, 9500 Gilman Drive, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0687, USA
Tel: 858-534-3296 (office) 858-534-1346 (lab); Fax: 858-534-5611 http://cmm.ucsd.edu/varki/biography.html
Executive Editor, "Essentials of Glycobiology": http://www.cshlpress.com/link/glycobio.htm
ALSO: genes involved in glycosylation
Matt Wright
Small nucleolar RNAs
Michel J. Weber, PhD  Email:weber@ibcg.biotoul.fr
Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Eucaryote, CNRS/Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne
F31062 Toulouse Cedex, France
Tel: (33) 5 61 33 59 56; Fax: (33) 5 61 33 58 86
snoRNABase: http://www-snorna.biotoul.fr/
Matt Wright
SLC Solute carriers
Matthias A. Hediger, PhD Email:matthias.hediger@mci.unibe.ch
Professor and Director, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Bern, Bühlstrasse 28, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 631 41 29; Fax: + 41 31 631 34 10
http://ntbiomol.unibe.ch/
Elspeth Bruford
SOX SRY (sex determining region Y)-box
Dr Peter Koopman Email:p.koopman@imb.uq.edu.au
Australian Research Council Professorial Research Fellow 
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 
QLD 4072, Australia
Tel: +61 7 3365 4491; Fax: +61 7 3365 4388 
http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/Koopman.html
Elspeth Bruford
TBX T-box
Jeremy Gibson-Brown, PhD Email:gibbroster@gmail.com
Dept. of Biology, Washington University, Campus Box 1229, 1 Brookings Drive, Saint Louis, MO 63105, USA
Tel: 314-935-4467;  Fax: 314-935-5125
Elspeth Bruford
TNFSF
TNFRSF
Tumor necrosis factor and receptor superfamilies
Carl F. Ware, PhD Email:cware@liai.org
Head and Member Division of Molecular Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology and Professor of Biology, University of California, San Diego, 10355 Science Center Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
Tel: 858-678-4660; Fax: 858-558-3595 
http://www.liai.org/ 
 
TR T cell receptors
Professor Marie-Paule Lefranc Email:lefranc@ligm.igh.cnrs.fr
Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire  LIGM, UPR CNRS 1142, IGH, 141 rue de la Cardonille,  34396 Montpellier, Cedex 5, France
Tel: +33 (0)4 99 61 99 65;  Fax: +33 (0)4 99 61 99 01
IMGT  The International ImMunoGeneTics information system®
 
TRIM Tripartite motif-containing
Alexandre Reymond
Email:alexandre.reymond@medecine.unige.ch
Division of Medical Genetics, University of Geneva Medical School, Centre Médical Universitaire, 1, rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland 
Tel: 0041-227025719, 0041-227025707 (secretary); Fax: 0041-227025706
Matt Wright
TRP Transient receptor potential cation channels 
Professor Craig Montell Email:cmontell@jhmi.edu 
Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 725 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Tel: 410-955-1199; Fax: 410-614-9573
Dr Lutz Birnbaumer Email:birnbau1@niehs.nih.gov
Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 111 TW Alexander Drive, Bldg 101 - Rm A214, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Tel: 919-541-3205; Fax: 919-541-5002 
Dr Veit Flockerzi Email:veit.flockerzi@med-rz.uni-sb.de
Tel: 49 6841 166400; Fax: 49 6841 166402.
Elspeth Bruford
UGT UDP glycosyltransferases
Dr Peter I Mackenzie Email:Peter. Mackenzie@flinders.edu.au
NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and Professor, Clinical Pharmacology, Flinders University School of Medicine, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia
Fax: 618 8204 5114
http://som.flinders.edu.au/FUSA/ClinPharm/UGT/index.html
Matt Wright
USP Ubiquitins 
Dr Rohan Baker  Email:Rohan.Baker@anu.edu.au
Head, Ubiquitin Lab, Molecular Genetics Group, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, GPO Box 344 (Mills Road), Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Tel: 61 2 6125 3824; Fax: 61 2 6125 0413, Fax: 61 2 6125 4712
Matt Wright
WNT WNT wingless-type
Dr Roel Nusse Email:rnusse@cmgm.stanford.edu
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dept. of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Beckman Center, 279 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5323, USA  
Tel: 650-723-7769; Fax 650-723-1399 
http://www.stanford.edu/~rnusse/wntwindow.html
ALSO: Frizzleds and other components of Wnt signaling
 
ZDHHC Zinc fingers, DHHC type
Dr Susan Gentleman Email:sgman@helix.nih.gov
Laboratory of Retinal Cell and Molecular Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Matt Wright
ZNF Zinc fingers, C2H2 type
Aaron Hamilton PhD Email:hamilton28@llnl.gov
Genome Biology Division, Biosciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., L-448, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
Matt Wright


The work of the HGNC is supported by National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) grant P41 HG03345 and Wellcome Trust grant 081979/Z/07/Z.