The only worldwide authority providing unique names to human genes
Cambridge, UK
Joined February 2012
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Colleagues at PomBase & FlyBase outline current funding issues that HGNC recently experienced and undoubtedly will again. The funding landscape for bioresources is looking bleak and something needs to change. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
The HGNC looks forward to working within the TransCODE Consortium to name micropeptides and peptideins, a new class of non-canonical ORFs nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
We'd like to celebrate #worldhormoneday and show our support for the endocrine research community by sharing some hormone related gene groups: the receptor ligands: genenames.org/data/genegroup… #becausehormonesmatter.
For all the latest HGNC news, including updates to our VGNC dataset, please read our Spring newsletter blog.genenames.org/hgnc/2026…
As one of the GBC's (@globalbiodata) Global Core Biodata Resources HGNC are delighted to hear of this new European Commission funding for the important work of the GBC.
globalbiodata.org/european-c…
HGNC supports everyone affected by rare diseases. To find out more about the #LIG4 gene you can visit our symbol report and gene group page for the ligase family genenames.org/data/genegroup…
🎙️ In Rare Disease Day week, #EURORDISRareOnAir shares its final episode, Stephanie’s story.
Her daughter’s fight with #LIG4 syndrome shows a mother’s love, courage, and hope through misdiagnoses, travel, and the search for a cure. 💜
🎧 Listen now: eurordis.org/rare-on-air/
ALT “Rare on Air Stories” in white text over blue, purple, and green painted streaks, with a microphone icon behind Stephanie in a while shirt, and the text: “Stephanie, Episode 9.”
Read our new paper "Naming the alpha-2-macroglobulin gene family across vertebrates" rdcu.be/e2ufP where we name genes in this peptidase inhibitor family including the ovostatins which were first identified in chicken egg white. 🐔🥚🍳
If you're thinking of a new job for 2026 consider these positions with our collaborators in the Ensembl-GENCODE group
The HAVANA team @emblebi has multiple open positions to support the GENCODE & PARADIGM projects. We're recruiting annotators (bit.ly/4qG28g5), an annotation project lead (bit.ly/4qv05v6), & bioinformaticians (bit.ly/4qevYIY). We’d love to hear from you!
sib.swiss/news/amos-bairoch-… HGNC are truly shocked and saddened to hear this; Amos was a true force of nature in the field of bioinformatics and will be hugely missed.
HGNC is pleased to announce that our latest NAR database paper is now live - see doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1229 for HGNC updates and an introduction to the PGNC project
For all the latest HGNC news, including a new way to cite HGNC and PGNC code, please read our Autumn newsletter blog.genenames.org/hgnc/2025…
We’re pleased to announce the rename of C18ORF21 to RMP24, see our collaborative publication: Composition and RNA binding specificity of metazoan RNase MRP (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4086…)
Elspeth, the HGNC PI, is pleased to have joined the journal GENETICS as a new Associate Editor genestogenomes.org/genetics-…
For all the latest HGNC updates, and to find out which gene makes cats ginger, please read our Winter newsletter buff.ly/3FbUs2w
Join our team! HGNC are looking for a developer to join us and assist in developing webtools, websites and databases related to gene naming. Closing date for applications is 2nd February 2025, please see more at buff.ly/41nQbSW
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Our featured GCBR of the week is HGNC @genenames, responsible for approving unique symbols and names for human loci, including protein coding genes, ncRNA genes and pseudogenes. Click the link to find out more bit.ly/3UHKSJV
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