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Sonic hedgehog, the protein

Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:57 pm
by Ace Mercury
Sonic hedgehog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some clinicians and scientists criticise giving genes frivolous or quirky names, calling it inappropriate that patients with "a serious illness or disability are told that they or their child have a mutation in a gene such as Sonic hedgehog."

Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:08 pm
by Mikhail Gorbachev
Haha. I remember a topic a while back about a cancer-causing gene called POKEMON.
I'm pretty sure they had to rename it.