Database Downloads

Giving unique and meaningful names to every human gene

Main Index

Custom Downloads

Program Documentation

Column Definitions

Pattern Matching

We provide three outputs, 'Core data', 'Core Data by Chromosome' and 'All Data', and provide access to a web based tool for generating Custom Downloads. If you have any problems with these services please email us at hgnc@genenames.org.

We may in future increase the number of fields returned by the 'Core Data' and 'All Data' outputs. If you are processing the data by script and therefore the layout of the data is important, bookmark the output page, since the URL encodes the layout. Failing that, the output can be easily recreated using the Custom Download page.

Commercial Users please read this information before using any of our downloads.

Core Data

The column headings for the Core Dataset are:-

HGNC ID	Approved Symbol	Approved Name	Status	Previous Symbols
Previous Names	Aliases	Chromosome	Accession Numbers	RefSeq IDs

These data are available in either HTML or Text format.

Core Data by Chromosome

These files are chromosome-specific subsets of the Core Data. 'Reserved' indicates symbols we have not associated with a chromosome location.

Chr 1 HTML Text	Chr 8 HTML Text	Chr 15 HTML Text	Chr 22 HTML Text
Chr 2 HTML Text	Chr 9 HTML Text	Chr 16 HTML Text	Chrm X HTML Text
Chr 3 HTML Text	Chr 10 HTML Text	Chr 17 HTML Text	Chrm Y HTML Text
Chr 4 HTML Text	Chr 11 HTML Text	Chr 18 HTML Text	Chr X and Y HTML Text
Chr 5 HTML Text	Chr 12 HTML Text	Chr 19 HTML Text	reserved HTML Text
Chr 6 HTML Text	Chr 13 HTML Text	Chr 20 HTML Text
Chr 7 HTML Text	Chr 14 HTML Text	Chr 21 HTML Text

All Data

This download represents all the data we export from our database available as either HTML or Text .

The column headings are:-

HGNC ID	Approved Symbol	Approved Name	Status	Locus Type
Previous Symbols	Previous Names	Aliases	Chromosome	Date Approved
Date Modified	Date Name Changed	Accession Numbers	Enzyme ID	Entrez Gene ID
MGD ID	Misc IDs	Pubmed IDs	RefSeq IDs	Gene Family Name
GDB ID (mapped data)	Entrez Gene ID (mapped data)	OMIM ID (mapped data)	RefSeq (mapped data)	SwissProt ID (mapped data)

Custom Download

Custom Download is a script that serves as a front end for a PostgreSQL database. It provides a web-based interface which will allow users to select columns of data for output, execute limited SQL queries and save searches for future reference.

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	The work of the HGNC is supported by grant P41 HG03345 and Wellcome Trust grant 081979/Z/07/Z.