IAC Hot Topics

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Issues discussed include:

1. The concept of the 'gene'
2. Pseudogenes: definition and nomenclature
3. Confidentiality of submitters information
4. Use of the three-letter symbol of Sec, and a one-letter symbol of U for selenocysteine.
5. Variable copy number gene nomenclature
6. Transcripts of unknown function
7. Nomenclature in other species

Once resolved, most solutions are incorporated into the Nomenclature Guidelines (see section on Updates post-publication).

 

Past Membership of the HGNC's IAC

• Veronica van Heyningen (chair) 
  MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK
• Amos Bairoch
  Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland
• Deanna Church
  National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA
• Tim Hubbard
  Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
• Peter Stadler
  University of Leipzig, Germany
• Tom Bonner
  National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA
• David Burt
  Roslin Institute & Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Midlothian, UK
• Richard Cammack
  King's College London, UK
• Johan den Dunnen
  Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
• Janan Eppig
  The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, USA
• Doron Lancet
  Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
• Dan Nebert
  University of Cincinnati, USA
• Bonnie Pagon
  University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA
• Sue Povey
  University College London, UK
• Steve Scherer
  The Centre for Applied Genomics, Toronto, Canada
• Alan Scott
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
• Derek Stemple
  Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
• Hillary Sussman
  Genome Research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
• Todd Taylor
  RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Yokohama, Japan