HGNC

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Initialism of HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee.

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proper noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee.

    This week, the HGNC published new guidelines for gene naming, including for “symbols that affect data handling and retrieval.”

    2020 August 6, James Vincent, “Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates”, in The Verge

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