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The Naming of Genes 12-08-2009



Kakapo, Cleopatra and Pavarotti are cryptic names for genes; the clue to what they do lies in their names. Sue Broom
cracks the code in this subtle game of scientific one upmanship.



Chardonay, Hedgehog and Cheap Dates all have one thing in common. They are all names for genes, specifically of fruit
fly or drosophilia genes. The trick is you have to guess what it is, so for example Amontillado is a allusion to the
Edgar Allan Poe book where the hero is walled in alive; the gene amontillado refers to mutant larvae who can't hatch.



Chardonay is a reference to the white blood cells and other wine genes are Chablis, retsina and Chianti. The wine
collection is housed at Dr Leonard Zon's laboratory at Harvard Medical School. When one of Dr Zon's students discovers a
new wine gene, they are awarded with a bottle of that particular wine, although he has got wise to them choosing some of
the more rarified and expensive vintages.



Other labs prefer to use Shakespeare characters, musical references or more colloquial terms such as Lush, referring to
an increased affection for alcohol. Sometimes there are races to name the gene, and a fight may break out between
institutions. Kathy Matthews of the Bloomington Drosophilia Stock Centre in Indiana proudly says that fly geneticists
were the first geneticists and therefore in the early days it was like being in the Wild West, but now political
correctness is moving in.



More seriously, worm, mice and human geneticists think they should tone down their gene names. Its not appropriate they
say to call a gene a Sonic Hedegehog.



But Kathy and her colleagues are resisting; it is part of their tradition, they say. A witty, whimsical or colloquial
name can get a scientist lot of attention in the scientific community.



Sue Broom looks at some of the more famous examples and charts the resistance to turning Van Gogh into a chain of
numbers and letters.



From The Radio Times



Imagine a world in which lost polar explorers regularly interact with vampires,
Pavarotti causes insects to balloon in weight and sonic hedgehogs are tracked with precision by fly-people. Sounds
bizarre? Well, according to Sue Broom's very funny documentary on the naming of genes, such oddness is played out daily
in the labs of genetic researchers. Along the way she meets enthusiastic scientists from both sides of the Atlantic, all
of whom long to discover and, more importantly, name a gene of their very own. Some see the weird names as inappropriate
but, as one contributor says, "it's all in fun". 



-- Tom Cole





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