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Giving unique and meaningful names to every human gene

This public copy of the database was last updated Wednesday May 14 23:28:29 2008
There are now 25256 approved gene symbols, 30108 aliases, and 3022 withdrawn symbols.

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These data are also available as a tab delimited flat file via the Downloads page

Authors are requested to cite: 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

and the database in the following format:HGNC Database, HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC), EMBL Outstation - Hinxton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK. (http://www.genenames.org/). Include the month and year you retrieved the data cited.

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	The work of the HGNC is supported by NHGRI grant P41 HG003345, the UK Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.