The HGNC is keen to engage with patient groups when possible, as their input can help us to assign meaningful, functionally informative and importantly, non-pejorative gene nomenclature.
We have discussed the nomenclature update for [Read more]
We are excited to announce the paper describing the Gene Curation Coalition (GenCC)’s global effort to harmonise gene–disease evidence resources is now published in Genetics in Medicine (available via this link until June 23rd 2022).
Figuring out which genes to [Read more]
After 9 years of working with us, we have had to say goodbye to Beth Yates, our first developer for the VGNC project. We would like to thank Beth for all of her hard work in setting up the VGNC website, vertebrate.genenames.org, as well [Read more]
Photo: Springtime daffodils
The HGNC curators recently held a two day “gene group jamboree” where we reviewed our existing gene group resource and thought about how we can make it even more useful to researchers in future. There are currently 1642 gene groups that have all been [Read more]
We would like to thank all the members of our SAB for attending our (mostly virtual) annual meeting from 27-28th January. We hope that we might be able to host a less virtual version in the future! We were pleased to [Read more]