Still Unnamed

Every human gene gets an official symbol from HGNC. When nobody knows what a gene does, it gets a placeholder: C1orf112 (“chromosome 1 open reading frame 112”), FAM53B (“family with sequence similarity”) or KIAA0100 (a lab clone number). It gets a real name once someone works out what it does.

– human protein-coding genes are still known only by a placeholder.

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